Unity - Abandoned - SinStory [v0.9.76 EA] [XtreamAnim]

Review for version 0.3.3
This is pretty awful. Reading through the dev notes I think getting locked in your mom's room was supposed to be fixed but I still got locked inside, if it hasn't been yet and the dev meant it is being worked on then I question how you can let something like that happen, you'd think it would occur to someone that you'd want to steal money in the morning. On to other problems; there's no real content as far as I can tell. Two sex scenes, one is an in game porn video and the other is a hallucination where the mc fucks a pillow. At least 70% of your options will tell you "not available in this build" which in my opinion means the options shouldn't even exist. The English seems to have not been written by a native speaker or the editing process was not complete before publishing because I found several grammatical errors and while I mention that it isn't terrible, so I give it a pass. No camera controls is a big issue, if you want point and click like this go the runescape route and have camera controls and point and click movement. I'm pretty harsh when it comes to my opinions of early access games like this because it's always over promise and underdeliver but I am feeling a little generous because I can see this being good, it just isn't yet and needs a substantial amount of work before it is.

I won't completely bad mouth this game, however that doesn't mean its amazing either. There are bugs in this game, it has very little to no direction to figure out how to improve your skills and your relationship with others, the money system in this game when you first start off is grindy and can take 4 or 5 days maybe more before you can start earning money from a job instead of asking/stealing from your stepmom. Honestly I still haven't figured out how to improve the sex skill that you need in order to do anything because the lack of directions.

With the experience I've had with this game I can say that it needs improvement. However I won't say it was a complete bad experience. If it would just give out proper tips and proper directions then it would improve itself far more and show us the content this game actually has to offer rather than having people spinning in a circle trying to figure something out.

Almost forgot. We need an option to change how the camera works because its awful when trying to give someone a massage.

Commands are clunky, animations are slow as hell and a lot of bugs.
The plot seems ok by now but is a real pain to keep just massaging the the woman and nothing happens(sometime the pleasure bar just give up and don't go down or up)

Too awkward, the security interrogation is really hard to get a grasp of. The biggest problem with this game is that the interact points are invisible so you spend most of the game looking for the interact points. Transitions are really slow and the game takes forever to do most actions. It's really clunky.

Its a mess... Playing the VIP build v0.2.83 and soo many bugs, glitches constantly... I can't even save the game. The whole game is just a mess and I don't think the dev knows what they are doing with the game as every build is just a buggy mess. The game has potential though I will give it that but until these bugs are fixed, cut scenes can be skipped, more content added and more things to do other than sleep, go on computer etc... Why can't we do more things like look through stuff considering all of the boxes laying about? I will give this 1 a massive miss until the game is either abandoned and someone else takes over or the dev actually fixes the game.

General thoughts about the game:
The idea behind the game is not bad. The graphics are ok. The mechanics though, are poorly implemeted. The movements feel slow. Your character will lose energy quickly. You will not have a lot of freedom on how you want to manage your character daily stats such as food, energy, ect..

Controls:
Regarding Controls, almost everything is bind to your mouse and half of the controls will be bound to the scroll wheel and you cannot change the keybindings. It sucks if you don't have a mouse or don't like to use your mouse for everything.

Final take:
Your character loses energy extremely quickly and, eating does not help you recover energy or slow the process of losing energy. There are only two ways to recover energy, the first one being drinking coffee which you can do once a day and the second energy recovery option is to sleep.

You cannot sleep for less than 4 hours. You are not provided with any coherent walkthrough or any sort of guide. You will get some tips here and there but honestly, they are not helpful in most situations in this game. So, you will probably find yourself lost in most cases, and because the game is imcomplete, you will be wasting a lot time trying stuff out to figure what have been implemented in the game and, what are still to be implemented since there are no proper listing of the available content and features. Sometimes, you will be told that stuff are available in the game by other posters but the game has a lot of bugs.. so yeah, good luck figuring out what's true and what's not.

Last thing I want to add is that apparently there's a cheat for this game which would help you figure what is available in the game and by-pass some of the buggy mechanics but it's only available to people who pay the Dev. Funny thing is that the Dev claims to want the game to be hard hence why they have not included a walkthrough in the game or with the game. But then you find out they are selling the cheats for the game on their patreon. My impression is that they are just trying to milk money out of people with their unfinished, buggy, unfriendly-designed game. Honestly, I don't recommend anyone wasting their money on them. There are many reputatable game developpers that you can support and they don't do scummy things like this Dev does.

NLT and Chyos are prime examples of good, honest and hardworking Devs. I don't ever regret playing their games and contributing in supporting them financially.

No explanation on how to get to the sex scenes, the devs should be more explicit about that. There is a good idea with the game in itself, however the execution is rather too frustrating to fully enjoy what is offered here. At least with other games, there is a minimum of fundamental explanation of the NSFW, which is the whole purpose of the games

This feels like a game that I played 2-3 years ago. But I haven't been playing adult games for that long. When I looked on my computer, I had a save file from six months ago. So when I first tried this game all those months ago, I was interested enough to keep clicking and trying different things. I found out things by mistake. Like if I stopped masturbating and turned off the porn before my mom came into the room, it improved my relationship with her. I can't believe that I took the time to figure that out. The way I play games and my tastes in games now have changed so much since then. So I came back to this game after all this time, and I saw how limited the game is. You can't move the camera around freely. You have to click on green arrows to enter some rooms. I used someone else's save, and I pretty much couldn't do anything. I was too worried about getting my food, energy, hygiene, and happiness up and keeping it up. When I saw my mom, she was either too busy with something or didn't have anything to say. If I saw her doing something like practicing yoga and I tried to interact with her, it would say that the content isn't available yet. It feels like this game is nothing but a tech demo without any worthwhile content. The game is pretty much just an apartment full of rooms that you can go in and out of, and then you spend time showering, eating, sleeping, and watching TV. The whole food, energy, hygeine, and happiness should just be removed. There needs to be a lot more sex content, and improving the relationship with the mom should be a lot faster and easier. I wish that this game was more like the game Staying With Aunt Katie. In that game, there was a little grind, but it was a lot easier to get to the good fap content. It was more lewd. Oh, and if you click Game Options from the menu screen, you won't get an options screen. It does absolutely nothing. You would think that a game that has been in development for this long would have a working Options menu by now.

Ridden in game breaking bugs that ruin progress and saves.
I tried and tired to get into this game, with all its grinding and all its weirdness in movement and gameplay but im sorry when I lose my whole save due to a bug for the 3rd time on a version that "fixed" bugs I just have to stop trying and just say its time to move on and say its just not good at all. not in its current state which is a shame.

The game options don't do a thing.
I hate the style of camera manly because of the character movement, please use WASD or a top down perspective it would make it so much smoother.
The pace of the game is far too slow and is a real grind to get from a to b.
So many bugs.
Clunky animations and some that are just not needed.
A lot of Engrish.
Have no idea what I'm doing or what to do at times.
Not a fan of the textures or the lighting in the game but it is early in the games development so that is understandable.

It feels to me like a generic game that has no end goal. No real story, more scenario based than anything. Its just following a trend like a lot of the other generic games do but it's using 3D assets in a 3D environment, and some of them are not that good.
The game looks like it was inspired by the twist and that's not a bad thing. Lets just hope it has some original ideas. There is nothing in the game that is unique or original.

A lot of work is needed.

developer refuses to take advise.

game does not have any kind of indicators where actions can be done, so you're stuck blindly tying to figure out where things are.

best example being the massage job, you do not have any kind of hints where the locations are that you can interact with so you get stuck having to end the session because you cant do anything at all.

a great tip for the developer: learn that users cannot read your mind, players need to be guided in a game.

I try to be positive when rating games which i rarely do, bless your heart but this is just horrible
It doesnt even have an option menu, the animations are scuffed, everything feels slow and loads of horrendous spelling mistakes

Edit: Dropping this to one star as it seems the stability and gameplay issues I originally complained about still have not been addressed almost a full year later, thus I am no longer optimistic about the end result.

I've played this game for probably 2 hours... The first time I was doing it as-intended, and the game crashed on me about an hour in before any sexual content. The second time, someone was gracious enough to post a save. Loaded that up, fumbled around for a while, still couldn't figure out how to see any H content (beyond the ugly hooker in the alley, like at least make her attractive???). Maybe there was some tutorial type experience that I missed because I used a save, but I feel like I should know how to get H content in the game after playing an hour.

So... I really like the idea of the game. I think it could be something really good one day. And I don't mean to be harsh, but this game is... horrible right now, from my perspective. It needs a lot of work, but a lot has already been done so hopefully it will be good or great one day.

It's literally a mess, the game is good, but it has a lot of bugs, I get stuck when the game wants and then I can't interact with anything, or do anything, the only thing you can do is close the game and open it again, I don't even know how to advance in the game, there is no guide or tutorial to advance, and there are still things you can not do for the version that is now, the game needs more attention and update. more, because you can not work, or earn money in any way, and only you can move the house a little, I leave them 2 stars because honestly the game is currently bad, if they improve it and get more updates there I will give it more stars, but now it is what the game is, and this version came out a long time ago, there was no more content or updates, I hope it improves the game, because it could improve a lot, from now on Greetings

Early build 0.1.21 so this is mainly for the developer
The game has a lot of potential but I have some suggestions to hopefully make it smoother
1- Replace the Point/Click with first-person, ngl bro the point and click is bad as it's slow and awkward around corners, that was my main issue
2- Bugs, it's early so I'm not mad a few were me glitching out of the house, the mom's hair going missing, and getting stuck in the opening scene
3-Option to increase text Speed

Some positives the animations overall are great and the story is good enough, the UI seems to have potential toom wishing you luck