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

It's a sandbox game but this one had me hooked. The concept/story is great and has good potential, especially if you're intrigued in becoming a great sovereign(master) with a plethora of ladies(slaves) to influence onto your dick.

I'm critical when it comes to character model appeal and these ones are quite noice (the Mom ). There are a lot of ladies(slaves) you can find in the game but alot don't have content. Luckily the Mom has the most content so concentrate on her.

The game is obviously at early stages as you can see alot of areas like the school hospital etc have no content, but it shows there is a lot down the line. So now i'm waiting with bated breath until the next update.

Overall entertaining game with pretty ladies(slaves) and decent gameplay elements. Look foward to when the Mom goes full slave.

I enjoy grindy gameplay (Shoot me please), but the in-between needs to have some substance and there's just nothing there. The dialogue is generic, none of the characters are fleshed out and share the same replys at times.

All you do is click the same stuff endlessly, so an arbitrary number goes up. There's no life to this shell of a game.

I am sorry, but you need less grind and more depth to make this even remotely playable.

Review as of v 0.6.0

sovereign more like Grind-reign

I don't like write negative review here as most devs are trying to learn things while they showcase their developing games here. But this seem warranted

Pros -
female character renders look nice
objectives/event tracking is clear and easy to follow through

Cons -
where do I even begin?
game banner art is deceptive marketing at best.
-banner art depicts Emily from normal dress to pierced & see through bikini. But game only has up to pink slutty dress. so last two clothes and corruption tiers are not available. "why would you fall such obvious ploy" I hear you ask , but in my defense game file size being 4gb with no animated scene (only static images) I least expect the banner art to follow its own game premise

-Too much Grind
in normal play through you will be grinding for money, strength & intelligence stats while trying to rack up much influence & corruption points possible.
Sadly I cheated seeing how slow the game progressing only to realize that there is not much content here

-bad game optimization.
while the content seem so less game size being is 4.45gb made me curious to check the render file size. Each image is 4k resolution averaging between 11mb-14mb. I have seen other games with 4k images that have 5-7mb without loosing quality. I shudder to think what will happen when game has more h-scenes

Has the makings of a good game but it's bogged down by WAAAAAYYYYY too much grind. Have to click through multiple frustrating interfaces in a sandbox that's too big for it's own good, just to make very small progression. Very repetitive tasks.

Big time grind with no animations. Renders aren't to bad. I like the story idea. Take out 80% of the grind and add in some story telling. It might be good. If this is a first time dev. I'd say it's a good start. Not a game I will return to.

Too much of a grindfest, you repeat the same events over and over, day by day, and then you are rewarded with a tiny scene that progresses your relationship with the character. Some of the girls look hot, that is the only redeeming quality in the game, avoid at all costs.

V0.5.1

Overgrind is my chosen description
i got bored with the grind after barely an hour with all the to and fro
not a fan of the mechanics.

visually it is fine. no wow factor for me but not a complete eyesore either. all characters are a cutout image on a background. event art is slightly better but poor angles chosen. it just becomes background to the grind though.

the plot is your basic adult corruption game plot and the writing is poor. needs some thought put into it.

the heavy grind quickly removes any enjoyment, and in it's current state, it also has little content with characters. only the mother has any content worth looking at and even then the images look unworthy of the related grind. mechanics just seem too much for such unrewarding imagery and story.

It would be a terrible game 6 years ago when that kind of game still dominated the genre.

-There is barely a story.
-Progression is linear and boring (dress sexy -> touching -> make up -> ...) and always the same order for every girl. If you seduce a girl with a massage then every progress will make the massage sexier and sexier.
-Characters are barely decent
-No animation so we have 3 renders for every sexy scene
-To go from place to place is a grind on top of the grind you have to do to up the stats and when you chose to kiss a girl to grind her influence ......... you don't see the kiss.

If it's to put a total of 30 sexy renders in a game, just do a visual novel and don't bother developping a game.

Despite the fact that this game appears to be 3-5 years too late from a graphical and gameplay perspective, it is strangely compelling and addictive. For now not much of BDSM content is shown, but the very idea of MC corrupting/enslaving his whole family is very intruiging.

I hope we see soon start to see some interactions between the different family members. Right now all progression paths are completely isolated and very similar in style (makeup->massage->dress-...). MC fucks his Mom and kisses her in public on a date but the sisters (or anybody else for that matter) is completely oblivious to that.

Great game, some repetitive gameplay for some hot scenes is a decent tradeoff. The game at current (0.5) is at a very decent state with a fair amount of content, and a huge potential. Dev is responsive and friendly, so thats a bonus.

Well the game is great, not too much grinding. It's still an early version, so much of the text and, frankly, gameplay, is likely works fine.
There's still not that much content but it's definitely getting there.
Looking forward to future updates.

I think game modeling is great
The difficulty of the game is average for me.
Looking forward to future updates
Looking forward to subsequent slave routing or other routing
and more optional costume changes.
Well done. I will support it (if there is a STEAM version)


2025 /05

Update is too slow. I have given up.

Very solid bones here so far, although rough on the writing and gameplay side. Similar to Corruption in premise, scope and style. I actually think this game will be quite good if it is consistently worked on and reaches the potential it's set up for itself- this specific flavour of very gradual corruption is a niche that is hard to get exactly right and I've found that similar games like Corruption go a bit too far, a bit too fast so we'll see where this one falls. I've been burned enough times, but I have hope it'll be finished. I like the models a lot, the setting and story is neat without being obtrusive and the number of girls that appear to be planned is quite ambitious.

It's still an early version, so much of the text and, frankly, gameplay, is likely placeholder, but a writing pass will be sorely needed at some point- outside of the dedicated scenes, where the writing is passable, the characters are devoid of any sort of individuality or personality. While not a priority, I think it would make the overall grind a bit more tolerable.

The grind itself is not egregious, but feels a bit unnecessary. This is definitely the kind of game where you go into the renpy console and just set the values up to the next threshold to see the next scene, and you're not really missing anything worthwhile by doing so. Either speeding it up or giving some sort of variety on how influence and corruption is gained would be much nicer than needing to cheat to make it bearable.

I waited until version 5.0 to try this. It's still pretty rough around the edges but I like sandboxes and the character models look hot.

Positives
- First time where the side characters aren't hotter than the main characters
- First time where the "landlady" isn't gross-looking but is actually pretty fucking hot. Good job.
- It reminds me of the classic old school, incest, sandbox games but with a modern update for the renders.

Negatives
- Not the worst grammar but it's still pretty bad. Maybe get a proofreader. If the game gets better, I'd probably just do it for free. Don't be afraid to start a sentence with "But" , "However", "Still", "or "Although" instead of saying "though" all the time. It just starts to sound like some sort of verbal tic.
- Some bugs were encountered. Seems like typos made while coding. (Mini-UP ends up costing the same as UP, Jeanne or whatever-her-name-is is called "Landlady" at some point, etc.)
- The game mechanics are there but just aren't that elaborate and feel kind of pointless. Feels like they're not quite there yet.
- Oh right. Also, gets kind of confusing when you can rename the "landlady" but not the "house mates". But honestly, any modder with spare time could just handle that. It's not really the dev's problem.

Some possible suggestions and other things I'm just neutral about
- A mini-hud or something that connects to the character hints so we don't have to go back and forth between the game and the character page.
- No animations. Not a big deal and I know how time-consuming/intensive it can be to render those so it is what it is.

Conclusion:
It's a basic plot line you've seen before. Nothing to write home about but nothing to complain about either. I kind of miss games like this that don't try to have such deep and "romantic" stories. Most devs can't write for shit so it ends up corny melodrama rather than deep and sometimes you really just want to see hot characters. This game delivers on that.

Honestly, terrible grammar and spelling usually turn me off immediately but I have a soft spot for these types of sandbox, corruption games because one of them being one of the first AVNs I ever played. Still, better proofreading would do wonders.

There's still not that much content but it's definitely getting there.

(Half-serious about proofreading it. We'll see what future updates look like.)

Great game. You can play it as fast or as slow as you want. If you want to speed run just enable console commands, give yourself 9999 money, and then load up on Great Gift, and UP, it takes three of each to increase a girl a level in control and corruption.

Game is a stat based sandbox so duh theres some grind, dev is consistently adding content, theres some engrish, but if dev sticks with it im sure this will turn out to be a fine game. The 0.5.0 update added lots of content.

Renders are good, story is decent, but gamplay is very grindy. Like for me it's not worth it at all. Maybe try to remove the repeatable events or at least try to minimize them so that it doesn't feel like a chore.
For now not recommended at all.

Way, way, too much grind in this game just to get to something, with vague goals for the mc. Played it for about 2 hours then deleted from my games. I try not to leave negative reviews without constructive criticism, but there is a first time for everything I guess. Do yourself a favor and give this one a pass.

Game in its current state just lacks content, grind not great not terrible but there is no content at the end of the rainbow, just wait for more updates.
Renders and character design are okay, everything is just okay. Giving it 2/5 due to not many spicy scenes.

Absolutely nothing to write home about.

The renders are subpar.
The characters are sub par.
The story is sub par.
The gameplay is atrocious and grindy in the worse possible way.
Last and not least, there is no content... just grind, pure simple grind with absolutely no depth or reason.

Absolute waste of time.