Ren'Py - Slugs and Bugs: Conversion [v0.10.7 Public] [Anaximanes]

The models are the highlight of this game if you like ACTUAL monster girls, think Zenomorth Queen. Instead of Hot orc lady. But unfortunately, that is the only good thing about this game. The story is meh, being that of a simple, aliens are invading earth. Turning their bodies against them. The other characters are written kinda flat and two-dimensional, none of them stick out to me at all. Mainly because it focuses on "Gameplay" leaving the story and lore in bio pages that are boring to read. And the Gameplay is boring grindy and not at all fun as you are just waiting as two GIFs hit each other, and the game isn't even that balanced too, it tries to be as enemies get buffs towards certain enemies but one alien that you control, the Killer, is so powerful that it two shots most enemies, one enemy tries to get rid of it by having a 50% buff to damage to it, but that doesn't work as it has 1,000 health and is tanky. Like, in my entire play through of the game I only lost two of them, when I had 45 other Killers in reserve. This makes the other Aliens you control obsolete and not a good match up, as they only drag out the combat. The good sex scenes are only in the bad end section of the gallery, and that was still made by crude animation, mediocre story and boring characters. And as it is not completed you have no idea when you have run out of content or not, I assume I did as I cleared all the heros and defeated the Main Enemy on in the game, (5 hits with the Killer alien killed the main antagonist BTW) but here is still Bad ending hidden I assume that's what's keeping this game from being completed.

Not one I'd really recommend. I'd say games like these or themes like these are aligned with what I generally enjoy, but the execution on this just leaves a lot to be desired, and it feels like there's a lot of missed potential in both the gameplay and erotic content.

The first point I'd argue is it doesn't feel like a "trainer" game. There's a group of girls, about eight or so, who you can assign to one of a handful of rooms each day. That's it. Once you figure out which room advances their corruption bar that's all there is to it and it then becomes a game of holding the fast forward key. There's one scene per room at each corruption stage (and the first time they go into a room with no corruption stages) which feels very samey for most of the characters, and poses are definitely recycled for most. Once you've seen the new scene, you just allocate the girl to the room each day on fast forward until she hits the next stage for the next scene variation. There's no extras, no dialog or talking, nothing.

And there's a lot of missed potential with the girls and the transformations too. Chieko for example, one of the girls I actually liked visually, transforms in a way that just doesn't really reflect anything done to her. Trixie and Rose too. The only one I saw that sort of seemed to fit based on what room affected her most was Amelia, seeming to turn "slug-ish" in terms of patterns and such on her skin. Going back to Chieko, wouldn't a far better design be something related to the brain tick? Why wasn't her transformation just having one of those permanently attached and bonded to her? I'm not even interested in seeing the very final stages or the rest of the cast after those disappointments.

The lack of engagement with the girls really hurts this one as well. As mentioned before, there's a single fairly universally recycled scene per stage for each girl for each room. You can't interact with the girls until the very end either, and there's no mechanic to make them interact with each other, with a particular mutated character, anything. The closest you get is the "breeding room", but again, the scenes are recycled between characters at stages and just aren't particularly interesting. Why can't you talk to them? Make them talk to each other (beyond random events)? It just feels like so much is missing.

I didn't bother with the RTS system and picked story mode, so I can't review that. I don't believe it would've made the general "trainer" segments any more interesting as there's no system to capture new girls or anything.

If I was going to give this a higher rating it'd have to be almost fully reworked, which at this stage of development would probably be impossible. I didn't finish it, but I did spend about three hours on it, and after that I can comfortably say I'll never touch it again. It only gets a two because I did like some of the "corruption" room ideas, such as the brain tick and sound ones. Shame that the focus on the rooms barely reflects on the final resulting mutations.

This game has strayed far from what it used to be, making women into bimbos and corrupting their mind and souls. Now it's just reusing animations in a crappy knock off trainer over and over. I want the fun times back because this is beyond lazy.

The only reason to no give this game 5* is because the sex scenes could be better, said taht :

Maaaan...When I thought that I exploited all kind of games that i like, i discovered this one , interesting enough because it has been around for years , lol

What to say, in one day has become one of my favorite games ever, im not gonna spoil you, just know that this game has managament features, pregnancy with a variety of monsters, mind controling, trainer features, corruption phases...

in short terms,. this game is fucking amazing and im so fucking glad that i found it. It truly would be a masterpiece , top level game if the sex scenes would be a bit more structured? yeah, i think that's the word.

Fuck man, great game

A short review. Great models and design. Story is simple but matches well with the theme. Good amount of kinks. Gameplay at times can be repetitive but the slow transformation of character make it worth the wait. Definitely a game not for everybody but for me it's perfect combination of kinks with interesting and different characters.

This game's rather hit or miss for me. It's conceptually in a very strong place. You are a hive mind using your brainwashed peons to corrupt and infect an ensemble of heroines in a trainer-style game as you watch them gradually grow more and more tempted, eventually ending in their complete infestation and transformation as some of your mightiest subordinates.

The game is very good at establishing tone, it makes no bones about the fact that you are in fact the villain, and can put the heroines in very painful sessions of torture and brainwashing. The bonus bad endings help provide further context on the invasion of Earth to sell this narrative.
Unfortunately, whilst this game has the style, it’s lacking a lot in the areas that would make this matter more.

The heroines aren’t very well characterized, and the game takes its sweet time getting them corrupted. Some may have one or two personality traits like with Rose being incredibly cowardly, Trixie trying to play hero, or Eve being a headstrong ass. But it all washes away in the sea of formulaic brainwashing, each heroine follows the same repetitive pattern as anotherdoes in each room you can send them to. Each and every one goes “ooh, this brainwashing actually feels really good!” and start talking like the exact same person when they start breaking down. Their monologuing about the superiority of the infectulons and the weakness of humans in near similar words and tone fit right at home in an 1980’s sci-fi show with villains chewing the scenery like no tomorrow. Even at the fastest conversion rate I felt like I had to skip through scenes since each scene will repeat itself until the character enters a new state of corruption so their dialogue isn't the exact same.

The main combat (which is optional) you can engage in just feels like an afterthought. I was initially excited seeing my unit convert an enemy unit into one of my own, but then when I looked at the enemy and unit profiles I quickly realized that this was a game of rock, paper scissors, but with each unit you have only having an advantage against one specific enemy type. The thing here is that you can’t really take that much advantage off of it as you are only given around eight choices of monster to breed a heroine, everything else you may potentially get randomly if you select your breeder to breed them instead.

Even if you do get a special monster, once more specialized units come in, you might not have much of a chance to use them before they get wiped. With this hamstrung combat system, you’ll likely just send something the strongest monster you have since you have limited control of what you can get to attack the invading humans to get it done and over with.

And for a game that identifies itself as a transformation game, it misses excruciatingly hard with its final transformations. Trixy’s is essentially identical to her penultimate form as an animalistic woman with sharp teeth, just slightly taller and more dark-orange, Absinthe as a mushroom woman and Chieko and a blue alien are covered in bright colours and ugly textures that hurt to look at if you try to concentrate, and Amelia gets an easter egg pattern engraved into her skin as her tits swell large enough to block a doorway. Justine is perhaps the most disappointing case of this. Her penultimate transformation is perhaps one of my favourite states in the game, with her turning sallow, humanoid body lined with reddish brown scales. The next step of evolution to conclude this process is… an identical appearance with the only change being that her head has gone bald because a spider is growing inside of it, big wriggly legs dangling out her newly bulbous head.

W-what? I thought she was supposed to be your psychic? You already have monsters in your army that can already use psychic powers, why does she have something that never uses telekinetic powers mutating out of her cranium? Why do any of what you just did with her head? It’s such a waste of a fun design.

Oh yeah you can also inhabit a body of your own to have sex with your converted heroines, it's pretty damn ugly. Matter of fact, you have even less things you can do with them after you've fully converted them.

It’s a free game, so I recommend at least trying it if you think you’ve the aptitude and tolerance for how it presents its characters, both writing and art. If it seems like you can’t, don’t expect it to break away from what it's doing anytime soon.

This is Gross and poorly made Monster-fuck game
Character models looks like ass
but their transformations are creative and relatively cool
Sadly best looking forms are not the ones you can fuck
Game take eternity of clicks to get the girl to a state of love-wife
you play as fat and ugly misshaped alien making experience worse
sex scenes are literally PNG-Slideshows. not low-fps animations, literally 3 png from 3 positions, you are done, end of fuck
No audio or sound effects or voice
Entire thing start from rapy interactions and its very mean spirited
Biggest dissapointed gotta be playing to the end of character just to find out how little you can do with her
Characters have bonuses for being fully converted, but there is no gameplay where said bonuses would apply

It kind of fun thoe very grindy.

I have 2 major problems.
1. The conversion scenes are too similar and too few. There are a few variations at the start as they try to fight it then it's just the same scenes even between characters it's pretty much just the same scenes but the character in the image change.
2. the battle sprite animations are horrible. Sins I played the "Game Mode" I hade to watch those sprites over and over again meaning I hade time to really watch all the movements. And it made me wish I hade what ever program whey use and there models so I could make new animation.

but other then that I found it kind of enjoyable.

The Spored and Infested hade things in there designee that made me want to use them as little as possible.

P.s. As of writing this I have yet to reach then end of current content so don't know yet how it is once they are fully converted.

The game has a good concept and I like the models, music is fine too.

But the gameplay is very awful you have to grind and read the same dialogue so many times it ruins the whole game for me the sex scenes aren´t even good they are just background sprites with bad camera angles.

But I still like the transformation fetish here a lot so if you like transformation you can try it.

A bit buggy combat (Pun intended) and dicent transformation/mindbreak.
Hope things could be ironed out. I'd also love to see a flashed out end goal/progression for troops and base, new characters and units. Menu interractions a bit easy to break with reapeated presses and time skeeps sometimes jump over defence phase entirly. There is a lot of potenital in this one, in my pervy oppinion.

I would love to give this a higher rating. If Parasite/bugs, Corruption, Monsters is your jam, the renders are really nice and the individual progression is enticing.

It loses points from me though for feeling samey once you have seen one girl's scenes, you have seen them all. Each scene in a chamber, regardless of the prisoner is a copy and paste of the rest. Some of the text differs slightly (Sometimes) and the girl's model in the scene is different, but what happens in the scene with the room, and the your voice/narrator always says the same thing. Some of the rooms being very simple in what they do.

Also the grind is silly. I like the idea that a character has a weakness you can figure out and exploit, but the only effect is a slight reduction to the grind of having to repeat scenes. I would forgive the the same scene more if each girl's weakness room had unique images for her there.

Lastly, I'm really not sure what the combat is. I did it once, got to pick my minion to go up against whatever was there to fight...sit and watch as they run at each other back and forth until something died. It barely adds anything to the game, and I would be much harder on it if I wasn't able to just turn it off and ignore that part exists.

I wish I could give it a 4, simply for it's uncommon content. If you can dig this sort of stuff (I can) you don't have as many options as some other fets get. Unfortunately, I've got to settle with 3 for now.

It's not the most playable game, I often just check out the updated cg every other update or so to avoid replaying it each time, and a lot of it's renders suffer from just being the same positions with slightly different base models. If you've seen one you've seen much of them all. It could also use another layer or two of change/impregnation levels with each model.

It's not 'bad' though. It's decent and if you like this type of content, it's one of the only games right now churning out semi regular updates so it's one of your only choices.

3 stars, hoping as it continues to develop it adds and refines content to raise that.

A really interesting game, every update usually contains a lot of content. Simple mechanics and fun to play with a lot of content! Looking forward to more releases, there's quite a few girls. Only two are implemented at the time of this review (One on a patreon release) I am curious as to what the end game is with it!

Terrific corruption, great animation and dialog, but the grind is nearly unbearable. There should be a way to play this on easy or hard without wasting a day to get to the end in my opinion.

If you like this game though, you should check out Giggle Night by the same game maker. No grind, multiple paths, much better!

UPDATE:

Based off of fan feedback the developer made the game to be as difficult, or easy as you'd like. Super appreciate this, thanks Anaximanes!

Eh. Far too grindy. I took to simply holding CTRL and mash clicking the top left to rapid-fire through training because you gain like 1-3% corruption per mostly indentical scene. Log on the chick says being spychic makes her more vulnerable to a certain type of corruption, but there was no visible difference in corruption gained and it takes longer to not just spam click top left.

You spam click through the same scene to see the girl go through 5 stages of corruption. Think it was 5. Can't go back. So if you liked a certain stage design or dialogue, better have made a backup.
Scenes per stage up to 5 are being bred or being corrupted. Corruption changes animations with her levels, dialogue, etc. Breeding does only dialogue with exception to the futa demon chick who gets new positions.
So you spam click 20 times the same scene, it changes, see the new version once, then spam click 19 more times. Repeat until you've seen it all.

Girls corruption is weird. She starts out fine, takes her tits out, gets glowy green eyes, loses them and looks more human then before, then suddenly changes into a monster girl. An ugly one. Green eye should be later than it is.

Once girl is in the last stage, you lose the ability to do any corruption actions, even just for fun or because watching her suck off a tentacle is fun. You can still breed her. And you can fuck her yourself, as a reskinned version of one of the torture options. 3 actions available. So you gain 3 actions, but lose 6. Its a down grade.

Tone down the absurd grind and I wouldn't rate it so low, but at the same time, the game doesn't really have much to it beyond the grind. There's combat but you can just spam click corruption seemingly infinitely without ending the day and never have to interact with it at all.

This game is truly something,
I think that this game is jsut a perfect corruption/sci-fi game with very distinctive artstyle.
There is atm only one woman but I´m optimstic that this game will become a great one.

As of 0.3:
All charactershave the same positions with no individuality whatsoever. I like the desgins but everything is the same for all characters, there is no personality in them.

This game is a corruption lovers best friend, not only do you get to slowly break women to your will, they transform too. The only gripe I can muster the that this game is still in it's infancy and as such you can only corrupt one of the girls (mind you, you can completely corrupt her).

As I am fond of games which go beyond reality, which are mean but do nevertheless show respect of, well, women. It is fiction, hence the protagonist must not be "real" in my opinion. And of course, as it is a whole organism that performs its power on the protagonist, a male player must neither miss a human-like male protagonist in order to identify himself as part of the story. No, the male protagonist is within the whole alien organism.

I will not say no to lewd fetishes if they warrant the due respect of the protagonist who is serving the player with excitement.

Go on, developer.

PS: Anaximandros or Anaximenes, on which of those you make reference? Both are presocratic philosophers. Gollum would call you nasty.