Ren'Py - Sovereign [v16.1] [Zinikis Production]

Decent grinder VN masked as a sandbox

Pro:
Cheangeing characters though very linear and not revertable
Basic Corruption system which is easy to grasp duo it's uninspired nature

Con:
VERY Bad english
Repetetive with barely any reward.

If you are bored this is a nice game, but if you actually like Sandbox and management this is a pass for you

Remind me of OG F95 games like 1st Lab Rats and Superpowered. A bit Grindy but nothing too grindy. If find too grindy can try use cheats to fast forward the game. Love the arts, looking forward to next update.

Review of Sovereign [v16.1]
The game is good by far. Although the storyline looks simple, the gaming target is clear and straightforward.
Ladies and girls are cute and beautiful. Renders are fine. There are enough girls and ladies to fulfill the sexual content.
Achieving goals is not hard, I still highly recommend cheating on money and the other two promotion stats to skip the bothersome daily clicks.
BTW, to get the 1st goal completely done, you need to get at least 420 officework promotion level.

TIPS:
1)Search in the thread to download a mod to enable the console
2)
mc.money=999999
mc.energy=100
mc.mind=100
mc.suspicion=100 (to get the TWO thugs quest done in late stage)
3)
officeWork.promotionLevel=XXX
schoolWork.promotionLevel=XXX (save your time )

Lastly, the Helena quest seems unfinished to lock.
I really enjoyed the game.

Not only is it a complete grind, ch 16 broke my save. I'm not grinding this again, last 2 updates have very little content. Game is an annoying sandbox

There is nothing left for me here and nothing for me to recommend besides some decent lewd scenes. If you want to goon its fine for that otherwise this is gotten from eh I'll play it to not worth my time level

Art: Really good models, wide variety, and close to lifelike
Writing: There are a few errors here and there, but generally the writing is done well
Story: NOthing ground breaking, but a solid premise and it works well.

The main detractor of this game is the grind involved. So far its not painful but could be if it gets too far. That said I like the content they have up there and look forward too more. I think this is a game that will only get better as more is added.

[v16.0]

The game mostly consists of grind and teasing. Just a few girls have sex scenes, but half of them are unique to special events and not repeatable.

Pros:
+The models are great! Girls look super hot, with perfect curves, beautiful faces and nice poses.
+Simple game mechanics, easy navigation
+Easy progress tracking, that shows all requierements for each scene with every character.

Cons:
- Repetitive grind with no reward. Most girls are unfinished, with no sex interactions.
- Slow burn. First "corruption" event is asking a girl to wear makeup. Imagine spending precious rendering time on stuff like this instead of making hot scenes.

This game feels empty because of alot of missing content. It could easily become 5 star game with just 3-5 girls, if dev focused on finishing one girl at a time.

As someone who somewhat enjoyed Corruption by Mr. C, I feel like in terms of potential, character models, and story, Sovereign probably surpasses it. The problem is execution. The main cast was pretty much bloated already. Understandable if these are the girls that Zinikis will be working with.

For some reason, without substantial content for the main cast, he decided to add a side girl bloat. If the main cast's development was already slow, it's now gonna be much slower. Side girl bloats are a pet peeve of mine. They're good if executed properly but often times, they just slow down an already slow development cycle.

One thing that I liked about Mr. C's development was that he at least focused on finishing one area before he added more.

Solid game and really my type of game when it comes to theme and story. The grind is a bit there but its easy and quick to sorta skip or fast forward through. Agree with previous commentator that the creator could make the world feel a bit more living by adding responses from other characters on how characters interact.

It really needs an editor as there are many spelling/grammar errors.

Seems like most things still say Not implemented. It would be understandable if it were a newer game.

It seems grindier than a lot of others.

The game has a promising setup but currently it lacks content.
I really like the idea of slowly corrupting the entire town, zone by zone, and end up becoming the country's ruler or it's Sovereign
The thing that most felt lacking for me is the absence of interaction between the characters. I would like to see the neighbor commenting on mother's new skimpy outfit or maybe a event where the yourger sister catches you wrestling with the older one. Heck, you even become the owner of the gym the older sister frequents.
Other thing that would make this game would benefit would be animations, but I guess with the sheer volume of variations the corrupt system brings that would be really hard to pull off with pre-renders.
Anyways, please let me have a full preg slave harem without other man ever touching one of them (the guys at the park watch my exhibitionist mother was more than enough for me)

Sorry for not being a native English speaker.

An old fashion corruption game with new (and sexy) artworks, which makes it my cup of tea.(5)
The troubles brought by events based on time are neutralized by detailed guidance.(0)
Influence, or "love" contents are not so appealing, but not bad.(-0.5)
I'm not familiar with writing, while I think there's at least a coherent main storyline.(+0.5)

While the game maintains a classic style with room backgrounds and character cutouts, it presents a charming visual appeal. The well-rendered models stand out despite being cutouts, showcasing the developers' attention to detail.

The game offers a significant amount of content and challenges, encouraging players to explore and discover. Though some interactions might be complex, they add a layer of depth and engagement. The multiple menus might require some navigation, but they offer a broad range of options for players to delve into.

Overall, the game has potential and provides a nostalgic experience for those who appreciate older styles with modern touches. With some tweaks, it could offer an even more enjoyable and streamlined journey.

Since games that focus on mind control (as in the MC's main ability is mind control) seem to be few in number, I decided to check this out. I started the game and realized I had apparently played this already when it was version 0.4. The fact that I didn't remember anything about this game was already a pretty bad sign, but it's been multiple versions, and so I thought I'd give it another chance and started the game from the beginning.

I quickly realized why I didn't recall anything about the game. It's a boring, lazily written, forgettable, grind-fest. Even if you cheat and give yourself money, strength and intelligence, increasing stats for the LI's is repetitive and pointless. The 'corruption' progression is also silly with the first stage of corruption for all LI's being corrupted to ... wear makeup.

From a mind control story perspective, the basic premise is solid, but very predictable, MC's father is dead, MC stumbles upon something that leads to an acquaintance/friend that leads to them getting mind control powers. From there, they need to increase their power levels to fight some unknown big bad entity in support of getting revenge for the death of their father. Good enough to start, but from there, the actual story is non-existent and centers around increasing LI's stats and triggering poorly written events. This is further hurt by the introduction of a bunch more LI's.

I could go on about all the other bad stuff, like the 10 minute time increments (just make it hourly), the forced re-grinds for some characters (e.g., after an event, Jill gets -30 influence and you have to regrind her stats, wtf), the extremely clunky UI, but I'd be writing pages more.

For reference I progressed Emily to the third stage (based on the picture of her 6 stages), so I sunk in a couple of hours, at least, giving this another try.

I feel the game misrepresents itself by having six versions on the banner when the game only goes up to the 4th version at this time. On top of this the game is yet another one that has lost the main story and has started getting lost in its side content, if this is to milk potential supporters or genuinely just feature creep I dont know but it ruins the game.

The game itself has potential but the developer mess up by adding more than it could chew. I have played this game since its early release but back then there were only like 4-5 characters.

A year has passed and what do we get? 15 characters and what does that mean? It means the developer has to focus on multiple characters and this results in the negligence of the main character. The amount of content for each update ended up focusing only at 1-2 characters at a time while other was left pending for the next update, putting the story in a complete halt.

I don't even remember when the last time Emily content was add, was it updated 0.4 or 0.5? The game is currently at 0.13 and still no new content for Emily.

The grinding and lack of animation are already a huge drawback, but when the content focuses so much on the side character rather than the main. It kill any retention one have for the game. For the love of god, please focus on 1 character at a time.

The game isn't terrible, but it has made too little progress in a huge amount of time.

It's an older style presentation where you have rooms as backgrounds and people as cutouts over the room. Most interactions still dont work and what is there convoluted and grindy

Despite being cutouts the models are pretty well rendered

It's very difficult to figure out whats left todo, especially with dead ends and unnatural multiple menus rather than conversation

Updated Review for Sovereign v0.14.0:

I first played Sovereign at v0.10.0. I didn't play through all of the content because it got tedious. I decided to try to get through all of the content with v0.12.0, but eventually hit a bug that prevented me from finishing. The bug was still there in 0.13 but was fixed in 0.14, so I finally finished all of the content.

General observations:

• It's an average sandbox, but the gameplay is too grindy and has overly-complicated stats for the MC and LIs, and some stats are hidden.
• The gameplay is so mechanical that the corruption just feels boring.
• There are some unnecessary goal/character dependencies that have tripped up a lot of players.
• Bugs I hit: Tori's corruption > 5 crashed the game every time the MC traveled to Tori's current location. Freelancing pays $144 when working 1 hour 8 times, compared to $60 working for 8 hours 1 time.
• The models for the girls are really pretty, but the visuals overall are below-average with no animations and most renders showing character models as sprites.
• The game's size is small making for a fast download.
• The story is forgettable and the writing is barely average.

For what it is - it is okey. And what it is - is a corruption harem sandbox. Go around, look at girls slowly becoming sluttier and sluttier, read simple dialogs and relax.

There is no pressure, gamplay is so easy that only idiots would get confused. Grinding is minimal and very easy. Really, quite a pleasant "game"

The only minus that it is as unoriginal, as it could be. But for couple hours - its fine.

The main idea is good: corruption, and the various outfits evolution during gameplay is the main asset.
Everything is dubious: no animation (I can live without them) but then also grinding, repeating gameplay days as in every uninspired sandbox game; also no interaction at all between girls, like if they were living in different subspaces, even in the same house/location.
Too bad that the author idea is not followed by very good execution.

Strong on corruption: using a combination of sleazy tactics to bend family, colleagues, every other female within range to the MC's will.
Weak on pretty much everything else: clunky gameplay, functional dialogue, basic use of character sprites and really poor, perfunctory so-called sex scenes.
Overall: another click-and-collect harem game. Fun for fans of the genre, but could be a lot better.