Ren'Py - Sins of Night [Release 6] [MakinWaves]

I honestly dont hate this game or anything but the writing is off.

Another game where in order to make a female look tough they have her kick your ass.......jesus fuck this never gets incredibly boring or old. Oh oh oh, but she was also holding back the entire time......massive eyeroll. I'm just saying there are far better ways to show don't tell like have her kick the shit out of someone in front of you who attacks her. No one in the history of mankind has ever learned to be a better fighter by just getting the shit kicked out of them over and over. Less of a shit one maybe, but thats a lot of getting your ass kicked over idk.....actually showing them. Like you can explain a stake to the heart is bad. Even worse you have her do it then immediately be sad she did it......like wtf are you getting at here? One moment shes just abusive and now shes sad someone else was abusing you. Then magically it doesn't kill you even though its clearly all the way through your chest. Somehow though you can explain shooting without someone shooting you. This is literally the most inconsistent shit I've ever seen and someone centuries old cant tell the difference. Why would you ever fucking trust these people? Fuck the vampire shit, they are inconsistent as fuck and you literally have no choice in the matter.

This is just a microcosm of a bigger issue. Besides all the NTR and the other issues, the biggest problem is there is no plan here. Its writing what sounds cool. Girl staked you in the heart and they almost kill you to prove a point and this somehow makes you want to fuck this girl. Let me tell you from my experience in the military, the only thing this builds is resentment and honestly people people wanting to kill you.

I just want to preface by saying im trying to provide constructive criticism via this review.

PROS
great renders and hot characters
more interesting than average story and plot

CONS
about 5 months between updates
mostly teasing content with nearly 2 years in development
sandbox

The vast majority of games on this site have similar problems (minus sandbox), and they fail. You will never garner a large base at this rate. Most devs inevitably give up due to lack of support.

Perhaps your end goal is a steam release in # years, and you aren't concerned about the support along the way.
I would counter by saying that is short sighted - a loss of revenue often leads to lack of motivation. Money is the greatest motivator, as they say.

It takes of with a really good start, ignoring that this is an AVN and that means you tend to fuck a lot more people than you would irl, i think this is one of the best pieces of media out there about vampires, im really into the lore of the world and vampires in general, and if the creator keeps on track and continues evolving the lore surrounding vampires this could literally on my top 10 AVN, i love how it delves deeper into the mind of the characters and treats them as people afflicted with a curse thats eating them from inside and not just your regular, haha vampire drinks blood and sun scary, THUMBS UP creator, really eager to see how this turns out!

I love this game. Rise to power games are definitely my weak spot, and this one really scratches that itch. I love the freedom to explore different paths and approaches. I’m not very sadistic, so playing a straight-up evil character isn’t for me so having the option to decide how to deal with problems is awesome.

Story

The main story hasn’t progressed much yet, since the game is still in its introduction and seduction phase. But what matters is that it’s well-written and shows real promise for a great main quest down the line.

Characters

The characters are well-written and absolutely beautiful. A goth-girl roommate and a muscle-mommy landlady are very much my cup of tea. And then there’s the female boss who can be either dominant or submissive depending on your choices. And the cherry on top a tomboyish best friend... I love every part of this setup.

Scenes

I really enjoyed the still renders, they look fantastic. However, the animations are my one major issue with the game. They feel too robotic and move at an unnaturally fast pace, which breaks the immersion a bit.
And it’s not a play on the MC being a vampire it just doesn’t look fluid enough. It’s like the characters are slamming against each other like dolls without any bounce or weight.

I have no idea how hard or easy that is to fix, but it’s definitely something worth considering.

The dev is cooking with this game, Honestly its refreshing to see a game with actual story and effort here although the game for now gets a bit repetitive i would say its worth a try for anyone as it would easily change with more updates.

I would say most of the content is vanilla and pretty good. I hope more people support the dev, he deserves it as he is cooking a peak game.

PROS
+ Story has potential.
+ There are some interesting mechanics, skils, and stats can be pretty good if they will be used right.
+ Sex scenes has animations and they are not bad.

CONS
- Some stuff doesn't really make any sense like how MC despite all the warnings let Harley went into Submission, literally into the vampires den...
- Kate & Hugh are way to cruel, and abusive to the MC, how they keep constantly beating, cutting, stabbing, even putting him into sun just to show him to be careful, etc, is seriously concerning, and it's not really enjoyable to watch the MC you control constantly brutally getting beaten up, bathing in his own blood, etc.
- The game has nearly or literally every nonsense cliche weaknesess vampires has, sun kills them, fire is way to dangerous, wooden stake to heart is even almost impossible to remove by person got staked by it, heck even getting good beating can kill them... I mean... Seriously? This is terrible foundation to build up for a game like this, especially the one with combat mechanics, they should remake these details, otherwise this game will be nothing but poor from vampire theme perspective, and combat.
- Combat doesn't feel responsive enough, there is no picture, etc, for your attacks, and that looks just bad, and honestly the whole combat is almost too detailed for no reason, simple QTE choices with some cool pictures or animations would be way better, but at least developers should add pictures for attacks showing what's happening.
- Attributes do limit you, block you from some content/scenes, etc, and it's bit annoying
- Lines to show what to click on screen looks awful, instead of highlighting little bit would be way better.
- There is no scene gallery.
- Diary text font is really hard to read.
- Meanwhile some of sex scenes has kind of decent animations some of them has ''static animations'' with only couple FPS as well.
- The game is bit grindy, but it could be less problematic if scenes you grind changes with you gain more RP, etc, but most of them don't, and it's really boring.
- Despite being 2 years old game it doesn't have enough content for it.

VERDICT
The game has some potential, but it's falls short because of the CONS, could get better they decide to improve, and do better job with it, but we will see.

Sins of Night [Release 5]

Not sure if I'm missing something big here but I find this game incredibly boring and lost interest pretty quickly.
The gameplay is not fun, it's too repetitive and the progression is just not fun because of it.
I appreciate that the dev didn't use models you see in every other game but I find some of them not that attractive, which is just a matter of taste.
The characters aren't interesting to me and are quite forgettable.
I didn't see many sex scenes and those that are there are really poor.

I like this one... but it needs a rework of the sandbox and other elements. The combat... why, dude, we're playing a porn game. Spending an entire year on the combat system when we're here for the porn is a strange choice that shoots yourself in the foot. The sandbox elements involve too much clicking and passing day after day ad nauseam in the same way, until you finally hit a stat threshold for the characters that unlock new interactions and scenes. These thresholds need to be reduced, or the stat gain drastically increased. Also, I hate to admit it, I kinda hate the sister's hair (this is however personal preference and can be ignored). It still has great potential, but I think not just us as players, but the dev, needs to shelve it for a couple months, take polls, notes... and then work towards improving what doesn't work. The combat system is convoluted and likely requires too much thought for horny people, and people really hate having to relearn a combat system after waiting months for an update. All in all... I can recommend people try this, but once you hit the grind, either find a way to cheat, or something, to get all the scenes.

The developer wasted a whole year. There is almost no content . Instead of silly mini-games, it was necessary to focus on the plot. The developer adds drama with training and just spits on it, just a line of dialogue in the shower. 1)A terrible sandbox walks, works, drinks blood, gets love points about lust. 2) The very slow pace of content development is just ultra small.
3) There is no choice at all in the plot scenes. He creates drama, but he doesn't use it to add a choice or even develop that route, he just moves on to another scene.
4) There is sharing, but with my sister and mother, which is ridiculous and doesn't work.
5) There are two interesting characters, Kate and Hugh, whom the MC does not fight back in any way and cannot resist the MC is just a whipping boy.

This game had a very good potential as a VN in the intro, it had a unique start and you could already guess it was going to be an interesting play. Then suddenly came the sandbox elements into play, screen full of icons with a daily dose of three times a day of corrupting your households, and it went on. As the stats were slowly increasing, my patience and interest both were decreasing. Like many other games on this site, this one also couldn't live upto the standard it was setting itself to be in the beginning. "A Vampire's family simulator" would've been a proper name for this game.

An vampire game with actual plot, not the typical girl fantasy, more like guy fantasy but made really good

Pros:
There appears to be some rpg mechanics in progress
Characters
Story
Fetishes
Impactful choices

Con:
Extremely slow updates

OK, I'm gonna do a quick "pros and cons" later to cover different aspects, but there's one thing that really stood out for me and not in a good way.

This is, in its essence, a shockingly run of the mill incest love/corruption fantasy. What the hell happened to the vampire theme? There's this intriguing and quite adequately told (although very lengthy) VN like intro that gets you interested in the world and then it turns into this dull time management game that you've seen a dozen of times already.
Why? The one thing that would make this game stand out is completely forgotten. Sure, you can bite your "mother and sister" and plant lewd thoughts or something, but what's the point?

So, the pros and cons then.

+ intriguing, although way too long introduction to the world and its characters

+ it's not a grindy game, unlike many other games with this kind of gameplay. I barely had to repeat actions to advance, in fact there were several interactions I haven't done yet and I still had more than enough points.
Tip: You can collect points after finishing certain goals by clicking on the icons in the quest menu.

+ unique models, but... (see cons)

- .... not very attractive (subjective of course)

- the management part lacks focus and depth and is all over the place, it's also (so far at least) very disconnected from the vampire theme

- due to the sandbox part, the pacing of the story is really bad, so bad that I lost interest in it almost entirely

- yes, you can change the relations but the game completely lacks the tension and taboo you would expect from an incest game. Might as well leave the standard "landlady" setting.


To sum up: I would have really liked to play a gritty vampire game with interesting characters and lore, dive into a dark and corrupt world, but instead I got a pretty standard "corrupt your family" management game. Very disappointing.

The silver lining: It's still early and it might deliver later, but so far I can't recommend it. And after more than a year I think it's fair to rate what's actually there instead of its potential.

Sins of Night is a vampire game featuring a little bit of mind control, a little bit of time management and a lot of corruption (or love I suppose, but let's be real).

It's very early days in development as of yet, but this game has a lot of promise. Much like the dev's previous almost complete game, Sins of Night is a time management game in which you follow a story and do a little bit of resource management and corruption/love on the side. There's not a massive amount of content yet, but what's here is great.

The girls are pretty great so far, with pretty different looks and body types from typical porn game fare. The two main focuses so far have a lot of personality and things they want from life, which naturally you can restructure as you see fit with just a little mental tweaking.

Weirdly, I don't think I can recommend playing it in its current state. While the existing content is quite good, it's mostly stage setting and teasing with very little in the way of pay-offs. I can't wait to see where things lie in two or three patches, but right now (Release 4) it'll mostly give you blue balls. I guess there's one prostitute to bang?

I almost gave the game a four, but I didn't really want to dock points for mistakes that haven't been made. This is how games should start and I'll definitely update my review in a couple patches when I can validate how absolutely right I was... or how disappointed I am. It wouldn't be the first time.

After the classic vampire turning the game dumps you into a sandbox, and that's pretty much the end of the main plot. The sandbox is barely in its infancy and it's currently mostly about fucking your tenant and roommate. There's a couple of good sex scenes with side characters but the rest is only buildup.

If there's one thing bad about the game is that it's unfocused. There's a love route, there's a corruption route, there's sharing content, there's mini games straight out of a dating sim... What the game really lacks is payoff, which can only really come at the end of plotlines.

Overall what's there's good, but I can't recommend the game in its current state (v4), maybe in a couple of years if the dev hasn't gotten distracted by something shiny and the game isn't abandoned.

It is a well-written vampire fiction. By "well-written" I mean that it is going somewhere, it has a nice cast of characters, it provides you with enough information without meaningless info-dumps, and it doesn't insult your intelligence.

An example. A sleazy doctor? There won't be an essay introducing him. You'll briefly see his social interactions, which will highlight his creepiness, his infatuation with one of the characters, his relative credibility, and so on, and all this will gently point you to the way this game's larger world works.

It is refreshing. I haven't finished the game yet, but I can already say that the game is worth checking out. And what will happen of it in the future - I'm especially concerned about the sandbox-part of the game - we'll see.

There is a core. We should cherish such stuff here on F95.

Such a promising game (as of 3.5), hope it gets more attention and support.
The athmosphere is excellent in my mind. The writing, the music, characters, visuals - everything is on point to convince me of the world it's building. Corruption is well-written as well. Bit of a slow-burn, which I don't mind if it's done properly and this one is. I'm usually annoyed by sandbox and prefer to focus on the story, but the system has interesting elements and though you have to repeat some interactions I wouldn't call this a huge/off-putting grind.
Very entertaining so far, eager to see how the story and characters progress. Kudos to the dev and good luck!

v 3.5

Great game thus far. Still in early development, it doesn't have it all fleshed out yet. But most mechanics seem to be implemented already.
I really like the writing of this dev. The CGs and carachters look good. Animations seem a bit inconsistent (or at least how much I liked them), like Sadie animation was good, but Michele... felt a bit mechanical.

Will keep playing every release

I love the vampire themes mixed in with a suburban household. The images are top notch, and all the characters are very hot. It gets into the story right away then quickly sets up the gameplay and how the story progresses. I've only encountered 1 or 2 official lewd scenes so far, but there's plenty of good erotic activities otherwise.

incredible game. i was a bit skeptical at first bc i didnt think the girls looked that attractive from the screenshots but they quickly grew on me once i started playing.

writing is good, the sandbox system is good (though it would be nice if there was something to notify you if youve seen all the scenes for a specific interaction) renders are great, animations are alright, gameplay is fine, corruption route is good

cant wait for more

This game would be 5 stars if it weren't for the sandbox-grinding elements. Having to hit certain love or lust thresholds to continue content seems rough. Some of the sandbox elements are good, but I feel like they shouldn't be required, like I think I had to talk to them in their dreams about 80 times each to get where I wanted to go.

If this shifted towards a VN like the prologue, or maybe less grindy it would be 5 stars, the story, the character design, the MC, and the overall universe is great.