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

Bottom line with this game is that its well made, and overall quite good, but the sex content is DEEPLY unsatisfying.

The game sits in a pretty strange place. Its one of those games where there's a lot of gameplay in between lewd scenes. Often this is a detriment, but the gameplay is actually kinda fun in this one. So playing through, it seems like its shaping up to be a great game. The thing is though, that you'll go like 1-2 hours at least between any actual sex scene happening, and the MOST you'll get is a 2 frame loop and it ends.

What makes it even more frustrating is that the setup and context for sex content is good, and the game looks great, so it seems like with just a bit more effort these scenes could be really great. Literally just a few more images for each scene instead of the absolute bare minimum and this game would be great.

But nope, and the game feels like a frustrating waste of time as a result.

This is a rather impressive game in many ways.
However, I find that while it is quite the marathon of a game, the immediate rewards are lackihng too much to wish to run the whole length.

Plot: 4/5
Setting: 4/5
Characters: 3/5
Models: 3/5
Sounds: 5/5
Music: 5/5
Non-sex Animations: 3/5
Sex Animations: 2/5
Sex: 2/5
Fetish Variety: 1/5
Sex Frequency: 1/5

Be warned that this game is a long one. Even massively cheating as best I can, it has beena few sessions of playing and I'm still not halfway through it.
Unfortunately this made me re-evaluate my time and I have decided to drop this, as I could be doing a lot more things that are more enjoyable.

I don't have a strong recommendation in either direction. If you like slow paced space games, this may be a good one for you.

Simply one of the best games around here. And I mean GAME! The sex content isn't even central. Game with an actual gameplay and story.
It's not that much of a completed game despite the tag, lots of content still waiting to be implemented. But 5 stars well deserved nonetheless!

A very long and fun sandbox game. There are RPG mechanics especially regarding trading. Nice graphics, funny and parodic story with a real ending. I liked it and I recommend it. It was developed in less than two years, congratulations, that's how the work has to be done.

Amazing work, the game is expansive and engaging with a ton of content and minigames that add to the overall story. Rare that a porn game pulls you in and makes you interested in the world and narrative but this game has it.

The game is fun, the design is unique, and the story is entertaining.

I can't give it 5 or 4 stars because there are very few sex scenes in proportion to the effort and time it takes to get to them. I'm not kidding when I tell you it took me 3 hours to get my first handjob. Not all the crew members have scenes, and most of the erotic content is just images, not animations.

In my opinion, the game could have more erotic animations featuring the protagonist to make the long gameplay more bearable.

The game has the makings of a good corruption game, but does not achieve a satisfying conclusion. It starts off very strong with lots of things to do to advance the Lis and game, but it falls off dramatically less than halfway through. I'm sure you've played a sandbox game that just leaves you just passing days waiting with nothing to do, and only one storyline to advance. There's a lot of grind, which may even be desirable in a corruption game, but it just doesn't pay off here.

Another NSFW game failing at wanting too much.

I really wanted to like the game: I love space / sci-fi worlds, the game is complete (big plus!) and the images do look good.

However, 2-3 hours into the game without having seen a single lewd scene and being stuck with only one LI around the MC, I realized that the game requires big amount of grind in order to progress.

The only mission I had was to travel to a new found anomaly in the space. My current engine doesn't allow me to go there, so I have to buy a better one. The problem: That thing costs 500k. You earn around 20-30k a day. This means I'd have to fly more than 20 times to asteroid areas, play the farming "mini game" - which is boring as fuck since you just place your line and hit space on static images - fly back, land my ship in the spacestation, sell all the individual material from 6 different tabs, go to sleep, wake up, schedule the next day, take off again, fly to the asteroids.. repeat.. 20 or 30 times.

This means the game simply doesn't respect the players time. There are also like 8 different sub-systems in your ship and tons of different materials to farm in space.

And that's unfortunately where so many NSFW games fail: The devs forget they're making porn games. Everything else is just a framework to make the porn feel fantastic, not the other way around.

If I want to spend hours in space farming asteroids and trading materials on space stations, I would actually play No Man's Sky or Elite Dangerous. In these games I can fly my spaceship in POV in space with fantastic music and graphics and 10000x times better gameplay.

If you, as a dev, create an NSFW game, the sex part is your strength! Don't try to contest with fully blown games. Don't overcomplicate your systems. Don't make people grind hours for nothing.

Judging by the visuals, if the dev ditched all the unnecessary clumsy grind and focused on fun little hot events all over the ship and wherever the crew goes, this game could've been really great.

You want the player to find 2-3 parts for their ship to improve? Write a mission around it! Put some story in it. Let the MC encounter hot lewd scenes in the meanwhile, then just tell through the story how they install it and next mission! The simulation part and menu diving is such a waste.

Finally something that deserves to call itself a game.

Space Journey X at its core is a perfectly decent and serviceable game. Nothing groundbreaking, but a game I ended up quite enjoying. You get a real sense of progression and becoming stronger in this game as you upgrade your ship, upgrade your relationships with your crew and earn more money. This sense of progression and scale also applies to the different galaxies you visit. The world-building is also done quite well.
The story is also very straightforward, with your main objective being clear from the very start and the necessary substeps revealing themselves upon encountering them. I also found the minigames enjoyable and engaging enough, especially ship combat. There are also several points in which you can decide to pursue a certain goal in several different ways, which gives you a very nice illusion of choice (I don't know if the choices have actual consequences but to me, while playing, they felt like they did.

As for the sexy stuff, I liked the style and characters in general, however, the actual sex scenes were not animated particularly well and are thus the only thing I would have as a point of criticism. What is commendable, however, is how well-paced the character progression is. The way different characters are introduced at different points in the game makes it so that there is a quite steady stream of new and different sex scenes for you to encounter while basically just playing the game. There are no real draughts of gameplay in which you only progress the main story, or you only progress a character's story because you will most likely end up doing both simultaneously. The sex scenes are also not all just stacked near the end of the game, but, as I said, well dispersed throughout the progress of the game,

So, if you sum all of this up this has been a fun experience to the point that I actually went and supported the developers. For me this is one of the best games on this site.

Best Erotic game in Sci-Fi genre.

This game absolute masterpiece if you are looking for actual game with adult content. You got great gameplay, ship management, nice crewmembers. Some hidden quests. Also game is completed and seriously polished. You can finish it, put it on the shelf and live happily after.

The major downside is amount of porn and really simple animation. Also there are zero romance between crewmembers that spent almost a year in one ship.

Must play game. Play it right now before it become very outdated.

Hi, while I don't think the game deserves 5/5 (amazing game) (game of the decades) review (I have a pretty high standard, if you can forgive me) but I do think what's in it (and the enjoyment I spent playing it) made with effort so much that it at least warrants a review/feedback .

The Gameplay :
The gameplay is quite extensive and made with much more depth than most porn games you could find, and I do think it's one of the strongest element of the game.
It has a decent enough in-game economy with ship's parts system and what not, but I do think some elements from the game could be fleshed more for better experiences (bots systems are not fun at all, battle system is just weird with unlimited movement)

The Writing :
I think this is the main weakest point of the game, and I do think writing should be the most important of any story, its the engine that drives the game forward, the game currently lacks it, sure the player have many "side quests" like peeping their crew or making them wearing revealing clothes, but in bigger picture, while the players is making money, nothing is really going on.
The writing is what separates the good from the greats.

The Sex Scene :
The game currently lacks character development enough to deepen the sex scene, it has the biggest pitfall most adult games fall into : treating characters as checkboxes for sex scenes. I don't want a repeated handjob scene with a character I don't care/know nothing about (I'm not that young anymore), I want some interactions with them, to know more about them, whether to sympathize/downright hate them, the writing and the sex scenes complement each other.

TLDR: what's inside the game is currently good enough/made with effort enough that warrants an enjoyment from a gameplay or two, but with more polish it could be way better, going forward I suggest the developer put more effort in the writing to put their work to the higher level, good luck dev, and have a nice one.

Excellent game, I love the art, proportions, great animations, funny gameplay.
Usually I skip games to the sex part at least for the 1st scenes to see what the game can provide. In this game I really wanted to play like I was the MC.

great progression narrative and character designs are what define this top notch game

the animations are fun and sexy but a little clunky due to the minimal frames in the loops

one of the better collection of minigames ranging from actually a little strategic to at least quick to get thru

a very good game and the best yv game to date!

What a banger, this game is away from the simple porn games we are used to. Strategy is key and the leght is awesome. Would play this again if i could forget it. Hope more like this are to come. Masterpiece

Abso bloody lutely fan fucking tastic

Sorry for the language, i really enjoyed this i am hoping the continuation game is just as good, maybe some intergalactic trading so we can go back and see old friends and make new ones across other galaxies.

Maybe a trading game with further use of bots allowed and meeting many more different races. The storyline potential is massive for a sequel.

Thanks Dev for a great game.

excellent project with a well-developed idea, high-quality drawing, interesting mini-games and a good set of fetishes. It's nice to see that the author produces quality content and doesn't waste time on trifles

Space Journey X is a real game, not just a visual novel. Very long and funny story, with well-defined characters and several sex scenes. It is probably not finished yet as there are objects and characters that do not yet have missions and a specific purpose. It really took me many hours to play and I enjoyed it. The downside is too much grind which forced me to activate the cheats. It probably should be balanced better. For the rest I can only recommend it as it is rare to find such products in this category and in Renpy.

So it hurts to give this low a rating, as there is definite effort here on most fronts. However, the gameplay isn't particularly hard or engaging, and after playing probably 5 hours, I didn't really see any hot scenes beside just SEEING the two main girls.

If you like repeatedly clicking the same things for a few hours at a time, this might be for you.

I saw someone mention that a cheat might make it more enjoyable, which if you really must play this, I 100% recommend finding something to do that. But imo, if a game must be hacked to be fun, it's not good. The dev should be able to optimize or provide settings that make the experience smoother, without a player having to guess at rebalancing it themselves.

v2.00_010d

The most dazzling part of this game is the gameplay. Its long and extensive and if you are into a space exploration/trading/questing type of game, then you will most certainly find fun here. The art is decent, not really my taste but it can work for the majority of players all the same. The soundtrack gets repetitive and the story is mildly intriguing, nothing too special though.

What fails me is the severe lack of the sex. There really isnt much of it when you compare it to the length of the game and the journey it takes you on. In essence its hard to give this game a rating based on the standards of either a porn game, or a regular game. It is just stuck somewhere in the middle of it all and that is why its getting a middle ratings.

Overall not enough quality to be a good regular game, nor enough porn to be a good porn game.

Very high quality game, but without cheats it is incredibly long and boring.
A lot of different well thought out details, interesting plot. It is not often that good projects are brought to a logical conclusion, and here the second game can already be considered finished, keep it up. Respect to the authors.