Ren'Py - Completed - Space Journey X [v2.30_023] [y.v.]

This game was really fantastic. I want to emphasize the game side of it first, rather than the porn side. As a game, it was incredibly fun. The gameplay was excellent, the combat was challenging and rewarding, it had a bunch of systems to explore like the bot lab. The characters were really interesting as well!

I give it a 5 stars because it deserves it, however some of the porn was lacking. A lot of the porn felt superficial and like an afterthought. The characters were hot (in such a cartoon-y way) and their personal quests and things were really interesting. However, I felt like each of their quest lines were incomplete. Some of the characters in particular, like Vee and Seraphine, didn't feel fleshed out at all. Vee has no character arc and (unless I missed something) we don't really explore her backstory or anything about her. She's mysterious and ripe for all kinds of possible things. She just kinda existed as a tool to be used for the plot. Seraphine was the opposite where she just had a basic backstory and nothing really came of it.

I know it feels like I'm complaining, but honestly it absorbed a solid 24+ hours of my time and I was excited to see what came next. As a game, it was really excellent. As porn, it could be filled in much more.

Edit: I'm judging this as a completed game. I'm seeing suggestions that it's ongoing? I hope that's true. There's a lot more that can be done in this game, and I hope that largely revolves around giving the characters arcs.

One of my favorite XXX games. TLDR: Go play, don't miss out!

A proper space exploration adventure, with actual gameplay and a simple yet pretty fun strategy space minigame. You get to meet & bang hot alien women and androids, upgrade your ship to eventual overpoweredness, and be a heroic swashbuckling space captain. There are games out there with better sex scenes and renders, for sure, but the ones that are here are great, if a bit short, and I personally love the art style. Kinks are pretty vanilla - some BDSM pony racing (of all things) is about as weird as it gets, mostly. Dialog is mostly well written, short and to the point, not the overly verbose space bar crushing carpal tunnel inducing word salad some games mistake for great writing. But it's not really the main pillar of the game.

A lot of people will find it grindy. And I guess it is? But there's also a whole category of people whose definition of grind is "the game is not a VN"... Personally, I loved almost every minute of the 2-3 days it took me to complete and when you finally get to bang the first officer, it feels like a proper reward. There's a lot of content here, and if you like games with actual gameplay system, I can't recommend it enough. My biggest complaint is that the game ended, eventually. And to be fair, some of the trading, inventory and android upgrade stuff got a teensy weensy bit unwieldy and clunky at times.

Also a bit confused (as a non thread-follower) about the COMPLETED status when it seems development is still somewhat on-going. Oh well, I don't mind more potential content!

This is a genuinely enjoyable space-trading game with a lot of sexual content.

It is NOT a game you can just boot up and start gooning to. I mean I'm sure you can once you've unlocked the gallery but if you enjoy mining asteroids, fighting pirates, smuggling drugs, and getting to know your crewmates then this is absolutely the game for you.

I have genuinely been enjoying playing it irrespective of the sexual content. The sexual content is good too, of course, but understand what you're getting into.

9/10 highly recommend.

Why not 10 out of 10? Because the dialogue could be a bit more titillating and sometimes the hints are a little obscure. These are genuinely minor quibbles, however, because the dialogue is quite good and the hints, while occasionally obscure, don't result in endless tag hunting like in some other games. Overall I'm having a blast playing it, and I recommend it.

Chore's in space with very little below par rewards.

I am not familiar with the date of "when" this project started but the quality and frequency of h-cgs is very low to the point of being playable with two hands, even as a ren'py game(?). The story isn't all that interesting, you are some dude who found himself upon a ship which somehow happened to be warped to a different galaxy. Your first companion is an emotionless character that you will slowly shape to being a pet that will deny you any and all sexual advances unless influenced by substances. When you do get to the H-scene, you will be met with a 2-3 sprite scuffed "animation" that is as entertaining as watching a caveman light a fire with a flint and stone. All other characters follow exact same suite, of "corruption" and eventualy getting a handjob.

As per classic sandbox ren'py experience you are introduced to a day-cycle in fucking space, because why not, to chase around 3 fucking levels of which we have around to 12-6 rooms each level where npcs are doing things and maybe have a different h-scene, where in fact there is but a handful.

The sex-bot system is fine, again we get fuck all in terms of h-content or any depth with the system, there is also some trading and a space-fight minigame but these are all extremely RNG based and save-scumming is nessecery. I mean you are in space and in the far future, you might as well be the Kwisatz Haderach of Space Journey X.

If you are here for sex scenes or h-content, look elsewhere, the story is basic, the gameplay is a dice roll mixed with clairvoyance, which all together results to a very below mid experience.

There's little porn in the game. Nevertheless, I enjoyed many hours grinding and looting and managing resources and so on. I forgot I was playing for the sex so when the little lewd scenes do happen, I would be delighted to be reminded that there was sex instead of be disappointed by how little of it there was.

Greatest downside for me is that the game is weak on save compatibility. Yes, there is a "Skip to-" option, but this is a porn MANAGEMENT game. It kills the buzz when you have to start off from someone else's progress.

The irony is that I'm waiting the game to be fully updated so I wont have an outdated save file ever again, but the devloper keeps putting in love to the game so the updates don't stop (don't let the Completed tag fool you). I feel like an under-appreciator.

EDIT :
Apparantly, save compatability is no longer an issue from version 2.0 onwords. Will definately try again. Fingers crossed!

Be prepared for a huge game which consumes a lot of time with little to no sexual or lewd scenes.
The grind is unbearable and the quests doesn't make sense most of the time and neither does the game logic even though it could have been much better in regards of being a economy management game which I like.

[edit]
Major! The RNG is terrible. Trying to get bot parts which match with level and attributes are just ... The same goes for weapon crates.
If you don't like RNG, this game isn't for you at all.

The models all look the same, and you recognise them from this devs earlier game. With the exception later in the game when you are to produce own sex bots/androids, as the basic androids all look the same it make more sense than the humans looking almost identical.
Renders are grainy at times, but the scenes are great.

By the looks of things the dev didn't have a general plan when developing the game and added mechanics as the game progressed.

I like the galaxies and thought behind the different races, but the things I mentioned above drags the game down.

3 is even with major the grind and stupid RNG a fair rating.
What keeps it from being a 2 is because the game is well coded and the mechanics are awesome, but their potential isn't used.

Completed v2.30_023

The fact that I love this game's artstyle, characters, fetishes and setting and STILL can't give it more than 3 says a lot.

But first the positives. This game has a unique and memorable artstyle you won't find anywhere else. It is fully realised and looks great. That's the most obvious strength of the game but it deserves to be stated outright.

The girls represent a pretty well rounded group. Most niches you would want are filled (except a black/brown girl, which is a shame) and their personalities/roles int he story works. The setting is cool too and uses the sci-fi setting in far more unique ways than most.

Now the bad. This game is clunky, grindy and slow. Very slow. This is not the kind of game you can play one-handed and in many ways that is admirable. A game that manages to balance real management mechanics, stretegy with sexy scenes is a special thing... This game fails at that balance.

There is just so much bullshit clicking. The moment I gave up most recently is there is questline to begin the pet training of the doctor character. This questline introduces milking content to the game. One of my favourite fetishes. GLORIUS.

But you have to grind up her score, take her to the training place, get rejected, go to get an unrelated luxury item you can't anywhere near the pet training place, go back, talk to the dude, then buy a ticket, give the doctor the ticket, set her to visit the training place, then go buy another ticket, WAIT A DAY BECAUSE THE GAME MAKES SURE YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE HER THE TICKET THE DAY SHE VISITS, give her the ticket, send her to the place again, go to the training place again, go to a shop, buy a broken milking machine, talk to the mechanic, talk to her again, get given a quest to find obscure crafting items, talk to the mechanic again, talk to the doctor...

And finally you get 1 image of the doctor being milked...

The reward to work ratio for this game is just fucked. There is so much bullshit busywork for so little payoff. You always think you are just a mission away, just one more bullshit task and finally things will get going... but they never do. You just get another droplet and are told to keep marching.

I also feel the grind and 'slow burn' is so bad it damages the story and characters. Like I am supposed to believe that after characters have undergone literal slave training, had sex with me multiple times, been milked, been routinely disciplined, been routinely made to walk around the ship naked... That they would still refuse to give me a handjob if I haven't done all my chores? Its nonsense!

In its attempts to be procedural and detailed the game makes its characters loose and flimsy.

It gets a 3 because there is JUST enough here to make me come back every 8 months, have mediocre boring time, but still get a little bit of satisfaction. Honestly the artstyle does 95% of the heavy lifting to keep this from a 2 or a 1 star.

I dont know if I should keep my review simple or long. I'll do both.
SImple : THE BEST game here! No doubt. No hesitation. No second thought

I played it 4 times throughout development. Starting from scratch every time. Never got bored. Same excitement every time.
I'm going to skip the pros. There are no cons. Just suggestions.
Dear Mr. Y.V. I hope you are reading this.
1. Pleases fix the economy. Its ridiculously easy . After day 20 I no more struggled earning money, which kills the whole economy . On which you spent so much effort with Auto-trading, Sex arcade, Mining , Fighting ...etc. Most of the game didn't make sense at that point. I finished it with 600mil , which i made with almost 0 effort and no options to spend it anywhere.
2. Please reduce the amount of Bot parts dramatically. I strongly believe players of all games are sick and tired of the amount of junk we encounter daily. Starting with Diablo 2 and ending with Fallout 76. From gamers we became hoarders.
3. Most of the commodities have no use. For example you can add a foundry for the ore, just like you created Assembler.
4. Graphics -character graphics are awesome, dont you dare touching those! But the low poly objects, like ships and stuff ...maaaaan
5. Now that we have ground combat with the bots it'd be nice to do planetary missions with them or even capturing stations (I'm pretty sure actually you thought about that already)

In short your main flaw is that the game has no challenge, except for the battles , that i find very difficult, no matter how well you arm your ship. That's good, keep it this way, but add the same challenge everywhere else.
Also bare pussies on day 10? Please add some challenge in the uniforms as well. Some of the characters are ridiculously easy to persuade. Oh, and more skirts please....

Looking forward to your amazing updates and starting it from scratch for 5th time!

Difficult game to review.

On the one hand, there is a LOT of "game" here. Literally hours and hours of play, and there are a lot of mechanics that work well and work well together. You can fly your ship. Upgrade it in certain ways. Explore stations. Do space combat. Play the markets. Build sex robots. Just, all in all, a lot.

If you compare this to 99% if other lewd games, the difference is staggering.

That said, since the game is mostly pretty good, in gonna focus on the bad, because it's where I think the game could improve:

- Poor Quest Management. In the game, the phone tracks quests and sorts them into "main" and "side", which is extremely misleading as "side" quests are NOT optional. Specifically, there are multiple side quests chains you need to complete to be able to progress the "main" quests. This really frustrated me, because it is non-obvious which order I need to do quests in or which ones I can even do. For example, I spent quite a bit of time futzing around with the biolab section, unaware that you needed the character sidequest Infiltration robot mission done beforehand. Eventually, I gave up and started reading the walkthrough PDF, but an in game system that shows what quests are blocked due to something and what quests unlock what would be an extremely nice feature.

- Not a lot of lewd content. For the size of the game, there's not that much lewd content, and where it is, it's not integrated that well. As a "trainer" type game, it somewhat falls flat because the "trainees" are sort of flat and there's not a lot of progression. Furthermore, some of the key kinks that this game plays at such as exhibitionism and corruption only really work best if the characters don't already have hypersexed porn-world mindsets. Gradually convincing a crew member that they really should walk around nude everywhere is sorta devalued when this is already commonplace and not taboo.

- RNG and Grind. I got stuck several times because I couldn't get what I needed to. For example, I spent forever looking for a "T2 military grade cortex" because the luck tables just apparently weren't with me. Locking quest progress behind random gates is frustrating.

Well done.

Good story, kept me entertained. Needs more grounding, tho.
Some more mature themes would have been nice.
Could use more complexity, late game feels a bit flat (combat/trading) could have introduced a more meaningful planetary exploration system while scrapping the outpost one or smthing along those lines, still does the trick tho.

PC needs more character development. In general, all of the characters need more development.

The weakest part of the game are the H-scenes, most of them feel redundant because of the lack of character writing.

For your next game try using Vagrus as an game mechanics inspiration.
As for the story part, read some books with strong character development, preferably something that has multiple povs.
You are welcome.

Donated.

Very good history, good gameplay, large game, lots of thigs to do, lots of fun. I did get lost a little sometimes using only the help of the ingame walkthrough and there are times that I get blocked by some quest cuz I didnt min-maxed the save. But this is common in a VN so I dont really blame them. I liked everything overall, I would love if it had more sounds tho.

Absolutely great game here:
Cool gameplay, very good music especially Iltari/gallery Voron combat music, nice art.
Better than a lot of non eroge commercial 4X ...
Some things can be better, especially for collection addicts.
The porn part is the less good part.. and we initially come here for that !
5 stars rated.

It's honestly one of the best porn games I seen.
The sophistication of the game mechanics is way way above most things on this site, it's in like a top 1%.
Graphics and drawing style are good and high quality. Wouldn't necessarily say my type for sexy things but that's just a matter of taste and preference; the girls look good. Ship, environment and map, all look really good for this kind of game.
The quests are fine, and the hints plentiful, I rarely had to check things in the forum. Some of the combat was a bit confusing, but to be fair the in game hints are nearly enough if you take your time to talk to people.
The grind is there but not as dull and bad as some other games. What I find that you do something a number of times you can usually move on, so no endlessly doing the exact same thing.
I don't typically like the type of humour writers put in these productions but I actually liked the jokes in this one because it's light hearted, brief, often unexpected, not hilarious, but I chuckled once in a while, it improves the entertainment level.

On the other side, as someone else mentioned, I also miss a bit more personal involvement with the girls, and the sexual part is pretty basic. It's more a game and less a porn thing. That I can't even call a negative, it's just different ratios I guess, we're used to VNs with a lot of very explicit stuff (which I like) and very little anything else, so it's just a different part of the spectrum.
Overall it is refreshing to find this type of game and I wish the dev all the best. I wish all devs had this level of standard as a target for themselves.

It's the level of quality that certainly deserves the monetary compensation because it's high quality work.

Through game I had many mixed feelings about how to rate this game. At one hand I love space operas and this one is very well written, if it comes to story, and have nice visuals, but the rest ... well, let's begin.

Story, as I wrote earlier, is very well written. It have some mysteries, nicely described universe and have a potential for future games. It's the part that kept me playing this one.

Art is also very good. It's quite unique for porn games and that's definetely a bonus. Scenery is well prepared and characters are nice for an eye. Can't also complain about animations.

Mechanics is a big part of this game. It's one of the most complex Ren'Py porn game I ever played - most of things you can do with keyboard, many shortcuts (you still can click by mouse, but it's very useful to navigate with a button instead of going through decks or rooms to go for example from armory to galaxy map), two quite simple fighting systems and the ship one can be challenging. The only thing I'm missing is a possibility to skip fight. Some later fights are just a waste of time and possibility to skip without casualities these with 90+ chances to win, would be a great time saver, because with cloaking shields and high lvl weapons, it's just extremely simple. Grinding also isn't very challenging and time consuming, if you have some experience in this kind of games. The only thing I had to use console was precursor crates, because I just opened them earlier and couldn't create extra infiltrator.

But here we come to cons. Or should I say con. LIs are beautiful and have unique characters, but it doesn't matter as you won't be able to properly know them. Most of dialogues is about missions, you don't really talk to them. No even semi-deep dialogues, no background story, nothing. Ok, almost nothing. That leads to lack of connection with them, MC could just use bots as well and it would be the same. The same is about sex with them, it's short and boring. MC put dick inside, few thrusts, some grunts and end. What also disappointed me is that there almost aren't any non-human looking aliens. Creativity in case of species went all to the plot and almost none left.

To summarize. It's a good game, 5/5 space opera, but not really a good porn game, average and vanilla, 3/5 max. It's not a fappable one, but still worth playing, if you like space operas. I see that dev is going to create next product and I wish him/her all the best. Definetely going to try new one, if poll results won't change and will be taken.

This is a pretty good game:
The good:

• This is a real game with real gameplay.
• Unlocking upgrades for your ship is very satisfying, and the way to acquire some of these upgrades is different and surprising.
• There is a huge variety of systems: bot upgrades, space combat, mining, crew management, trading, missions etc etc.
• The game is finished. There is an ending.
• There are a ton of quests and content.
• The art is really good. The environment, sprites, characters. They are all amazing and very dynamic. For example, what scene is outside the ship windows changes depending on where the ship is.

The meh/annoying:

• The game looks like a trainer where you are corrupting the crew, and even talks about "training" in the MC's dialog, but really there is very little character development to the female characters. You are allowed more scenes and different options for a fully "trained" character, but this doesn't come through at all in the dialog and interactions. The relationship between the MC and the crew doesn't seem to change: everyone still talks to the MC as if he is a nuisance at the end, and everything remains completely transactional throughout.
• The animation is meh.
  • While the static images look amazing, the animations looks like 2 keyframes tweening. It's just penis going in, then reversing out.
  • There is no bouncing physics.
  • There is also no climax animation: you get a static image for coming outside and nothing for coming inside.
• The RNG is annoying. There is a lot of RNG in this game. I don't mind RNG, but in this game, it can make a HUGE difference mechanically, so you can't really ignore it and just take the average. For example, if you want to make a top tier sex bot for big money, you'll depend hugely on RNG:
  • You'll need elite parts for the bot. and the only efficient way to get this is via randomly encountering a merchant who sells you a random elite bot part.
  • The random elite bot parts, although all elite, still has RNG variation in its stats. It can be a 42% improvement or a 48% improvement, and this can be a big difference.
  • You'll need precursor cortex for the bot. This can only be gotten via precursor bot crate, which can either be RNG loot or RNG reward from investment.
  • When you open the precursor bot crate, what parts you get is also RNG.
  • When you go make the bot, its IQ, personality, traits, and preferences are also RNG again.
  • There are system such as bot part upgrades and personality/traits/and preference cubes to reroll some of the stats, but you can also just use renpy rollback to reroll. Reroll hundreds of times to get the best outcomes is the optimal way to play, but it is also extremely tedious.
• There are many easily missable unlockables or tedious unlockables in the gallery.
  • Some of these are easily missable if you advance the quests before you exhaustively view the scenes. Such as turning in quest items too quickly.
  • A lot of it involves repeating the exact same scenes with different outfit options.
  • Some of it is unlocked via RNG.
• Most of the quest events are based on time of day. Without looking at the hints, which the maker has generously provided, it's almost impossible to organically encounter these through regular gameplay.

Anyways. This is still one of the best adult games available. And the good outweighs the bad.

Good game overall despite its Renpy's limitations. Plot is fine, gameplay is great, and models and assets interesting. Grindy at moments but never too frustrating to make it non enjoyable. Plus, benevolent dev leaving hints for those who get stuck, or don't want to think too much.
A solid 4.5/5.

What a great game! Artwork is outstanding, solid story, and a good combat system! The dev is very involved and has a cohesive vision of the development path. Each new system or feature is well integrated with the existing framework, and balances well with player progression.

So by all means this is a well made game.

It's not my thing though but I have to rate it objectively.

The visual style is top notch and the gameplay is fun enough to tag along and the story is fine.

That's about where things end with positives for me as the game is such a slooow burner and the H scenes are not really... like... they're not satisfying enough.

If you're down for a slow burner and getting off to pics that sometimes slowly move - it's a great game.

Overall it's consistent and everything comes together very nicely. I just wish there was way more porn in here.

Absolutely fantastic game. I loved the game play, as I could work most things out and only referred to the walkthrough and the forum for the odd thing I got stuck on. It was usually me being thick as opposed to the game being hard.

I loved the different elements to the game and the increasing level of titilation with the characters as you progressed.

But what I loved most was the freedom to do whatever I wanted without being driven down a single path. I think I clocked up around 400 in-game days of playing and there were only 2 gallery images I didn't unlock. One was the magazine from Nimhe, which you can't get if you miss it the first time, and the second was the ship kills.

The only criticisms I have are that it took me a long time until the Krell quest that revoked Moira's pet exemption turned up. This could do with a capped RNG, so you do get it within a reasonable amout of time. The other one is the Yvyee doesn't show up as a red marker on the ship map, so I didn't know she was onboard!

Interesting visual style, plethora of sci-fi references and various gameplay elements (trading, bot design, uniform choices...).

Lighthearted fun with NSFW elements that can give you more than a few hours of gameplay. Repeatability with additional content, even if the label says complete developer still updates the game, is pretty good.

Easy 5/5.