VN - Ren'Py - SpaceCorps XXX [S2 v2.8.2] [RanliLabz]

This is an odd game to write a review for. I think it is probably safe to say that I am not a fan of at least 50% of the game's content.

The game casts a wide net and covers most kinks, fetishes and sexual orientations known to man which leads it to having tags which would usually make this a hard pass for me. But just about everything in the game is optional and can be filtered.

I'm probably comparatively vanilla for this game and based on the game's "psychosexometric" (ie: the in game content filter) I have locked away almost half the in game tags, going for only f/m content, with no futa, NTR, cumswappting or what have you. But there is still more than enough content that I do like, with several different paths for it to not be a problem. And the beauty of it is that you could have literally the opposite taste to me and likely find just about the same amount of content for you to like.

Obviously this does have the downside that if you are picky with the content you're into then some updates will feel a bit short and progress a bit slowly compared to more focused titles, but purely quality-wise this is a fun, well-written albeit absurd and non-nonsensical space romp.

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So much personality, so many jokes, SO MUCH SEX. For real the best smexy game I've ever played just because of the immense creative liberty Ranli takes in making things hilarious and unique. Each character is distinct and quirky, each is funny af. The scenes(especially now with the re-master) are beautifully rendered and done. It is AMAZING. Keep it up Ranli!

While I'm not the one to write reviews - in fact, this is the first time I've done so, I really believe that SpaceCorps XXX is one of the best games on this site (if you highly value humour, than perhaps even the best), but at the same time often overlooked and probably sometimes skipped by potential players for the same reason I didn't try it out at first.

The first time I noticed this game among the updates and checked out the screenshots, I noticed balloon sized tits, grotesque and exaggerated body parts and situations, and thought to myself that it's probably just another game that tries to use lousy and childish humour and big tits to mask the lack of good story - like so many of other games here. So I didn't try it the first time I saw it update, the second, the third... and so on. Then, there finally came the day I was bored as hell and REALLY didn't have anything better to do, so I said to myself - let's try it out, even though I'll probably delete it after half an hour if not sooner. Damn, was I wrong.

It turns out, that not only that this game has a really interesting story, a staggering amount of choices, fetishes and likes to explore and many different (be it by their character, body figure, sex or species) potential partners, its humour is what makes this game my favourite - even when compared to some other masterpieces on this site. Sure, it's often silly and over the top, but in spite of that it's also intelligent and often a genuine satire of our society or expectations. I'm not ashamed to say that this game often managed to make me actually laugh out loud and snort in amusement, even though I generally don't do that out loud. The icing on the cake is the author's ingenious use of songs to amplify the humour in each situation and while I usually mute the sound in most adult games - believe me, you'll deprive yourself of a lot if you'll do that here.

As I already mentioned, the amount of options and kinks in this game is staggering - granted, you're not able to pick a custom MC but are instead put into a body of a rather thick headed, comically naive and strapping young country bumpkin from a backwater planet for story reasons, but everything else is completely optional and there's probably hundreds of different combinations already. You like girls but don't like sharing them - sure can do; love gangbangs with them - can do; prefer guys but are not into girls - check, can do; both - sure, if you want; like futas but don't want to do nothing with their dicks - check; like them and want to be railed by them - check; like licking your own jizz out of thick bodied French maid - hey, if that's your thing then check; like getting your dick and balls licked by a long prehensile tongue of an evil dry-squid-like looking alien female - erm, sure, check.

Now I think you got the picture by now that the amount of choices (and an option to only pick the ones you like) in this game is on a whole different level and so is its ambition. That is actually the main thing that worries me about this game - author RanliLabz is a single person and as dedicated fellow as he is, his game is truly very ambitious and complex, so I really hope he won't burn out or loose ideas. So far, he has an excellent track record though, the game is updating very regularly and it has been around for quite some time now, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed he manages to pull it off (and manages to finish it before the actual starting year of the game arrives).

Speaking of him, he's a great lad, who not only releases the game few weeks after each Patreon release here himself, but also immediately tries to answer and help anyone who posts here. So if you like this game and can afford it, then consider throwing a buck or two his way on Patreon or at the very least show him some appreciation in this thread - I'm certain he'll appreciate it.

So if you want a short answer as to what SpaceCorps XXX is like, well, imagine the result of finding Sir Terry Pratchett in his horny teenage years, feeding him Spanish fly and showing him German hardcore porn for a few weeks, getting him absolutely wasted and then asking him to rewrite the script for Starship Troopers film - and that's as about as accurate comparison as it gets.

I have no words to describe how amazing this game is. The story, characters, visuals - all 5 star quality. Updated monthly and gets better with each new chapter. It's obvious this is the game developed with passion and love and that's why it's so unique among all the other games. Hope to see many many more chapters. Definitely number 1 VN game for me.

The Gay Tag review

The gay and straight contents are almost perfectly balanced; the MC starts as a (very naive) str8, but it's totally possible to avoid all the str8 scenes and just play the gay ones, especially since the remastered version added a couple of scenes at the beginning.

OK, this game hits my sweet spot with the combination of great graphics, funny and intriguing story, funny and self-deprecatory dialogues, likeable characters and sexy scenes. If you like silly sci-fi setting that doesn't take itself too seriously but still with a decent story around it, that's the game for you. The developer is progressively adding new facilities and mechanisms, and after all we're still at the prologue, so I'm really curious what the future will bring.

I was late to finding this game but it's quickly become one of my favourites on here. Great characters, writing and humour and lots of options. I can't wait to see where the story takes Jimmy.

I love that in the latest update you can choose an entirely gay route if you want, and if not then it's totally avoidable. I want more Sam/Jimmy content though, please and thank you.

Great content, with probably the most variety of kinks and sexual stuff in any other game around, but it still doesn't have many scenes or character development. It has some very funny moments in the story and the character variety is just top notch. The in-game walktrhough is a blessing. Looking forward to having more content.

I have been playing this game for a long time. The developer has been really good about consistently putting out updates. The game has an adaptive system that allows you to avoid content you don't like, and the dev has even put out walkthroughs to help make sure that you can achieve the content you would like. The animation is really good. The remastered version has obviously improved it, but I honestly thought it was really good in the first place. There is a lot of humor in the game, which I really appreciate it. The dev is also really good about not putting massive walls of text to get to entertaining content. One of the best things is this dev is really good about responding to messages, as well as releasing free content to non-patreons as well. It's really refreshing to see how much they enjoy their non-patreon fans. I genuinely think this is one of my favorite adult games of all time. I've been following it for a LONG time now.

Note: as a gay fan, it's been a lot better than a lot of adult games I've played. I'm not forced to go through hours of content, or tons of M/F scenes just to get to the gay content, and there's a substantial amount of it, it's not one of those games with a single gay/bi scene thrown in it. But it's also all entirely avoidable. Great work

Pros:
---Creativity with Aliens (not just elves called aliens)
---Decent BGM


Cons:
---That the game has several tags that were not reported when posted (i.e. NTR)

---Story line is confusing as hell with no real rhyme or reason

---Continued use of the deep backwoods cult camp stereotype. I mean seriously it's funny once or twice then it gets old.

---Along lines of previous con, MC is denser that the center of a black hole.

---Points felt forced as if you tried to move outside the original character you were penalized or even killed.

---The kinks system never affected the regular dialogue. I picked only strong and dominant traits and my MC is crying like a little kid.

Seriously I tried my hardest to enjoy this game but once you got past the first few scenes it was a mess. Some might enjoy this but if you want a deep story and characters that you can care about this isn't the game. The only saving grace was a smart ass AI and some good music.

I'd say this is one of the best games out here, it creates sense of freedom with how much kinks/choices you can have here. A lot of scenes, nicely done characters, even stupid stuff that is there to fill the plot is enjoyable because of how simplistic and funny it is written, aliens, humans, demons, maybe angels in the future? But the variety is great and fun to look at.
Naicu game, me very happy, thank you.
Bad endings are logical (Somewhat, lol)

Review for version 0.3.1

What an incredible surprise !

This game is really amazing, i think it's the one with the greatest number of kinks, and you can enable and disable every one of them, which makes it one of the most flexible games out here.

The plot is really fun, the characters too, the scenes are great, and there is already a lot of content !

You really should try it, if you have any kink you will find it here, if you don't like one or multiple ones you can disable them very easily.

I'm really waiting for the next update !

This game progress slowly with short updates... but well, I can imagine the amount of work.

It has two main routes, the straight one and the gay one. Lots of kinks as well. It's funny and with some nice fapping material here and there.

I'm starting to have some issue on how this game is progressing though. It's pretty much because of my personal preferences, but here we go: for most of the time, the character (at least in the straight route, but I suspect this also holds in the gay route) is being dominated. He never takes charge. In the few times that he tries to take the lead, it's game over. This might change in the long distant future, which I hope so, because it's not so hot anymore for me, as he is always being dominated. If you're a femdom fan, you might enjoy this, but I'm getting tired.

Also, the choices update your stats, some leading to "content lock" (like "No NTR with other male characters" for example). Great idea, but the scenes are still happening, kind of. The image just turns black with dialogue only. And yes, the game is always presenting situations for you to break some of the locks, always assuming that you haven't already made your mind.

I'll be still looking out for the next updates, but I'm not as interested in this as I was before, to be honest.


Edit January 2022 (v.0.3.8): I wrote this review a long time ago and... nothing changed. There's no problem with you creating a game with gay, NTR, any type of content. But SpaceCorps promises you that you can choose your kinks and there will be a content lock. But it's bullshit. The scenes still happen, you simply choose not to look (the black screen that I mentioned above). And the game keeps shoving into your face kinks that you already decided that you don't like (again, I also mentioned this above, a long time ago).

I remember that RanliLabz sent a message to me after this review telling me that would be more scenes with the women without the MC being an overall moronic submissive loser. The thing is, they didn't make a game for this type of audience. They should have been honest about it. Then I would have simply not played this game instead of writing a negative review here.

If you like gay content, NTR/sharing, or even femdom, you might enjoy this game. But it wasn't for me.

The music,art,humour,characters and especially the concept are all top-tier ! Love the choices and it genuinely made me laugh, the game is very creative and different from other games. I'm checking your patreon and I hope the developpers are rewarded for their efforts. I'll definitly keep an eye on SpaceCorps XXX !

I like the whole sci-fi concept of this game, that makes it very enjoyable. The scenes are awesome, the graphic is very well developed and meets my expectations. I look forward to seeing the future content.

I wasn't sure what to expect with this one, but it was great! Adult version of the old Space Quest games I loved so many years ago. Humor alone was worth the 5 star. A very entertaining game all around. Can't wait for more updates.

This is an amazing piece of work! Everything was well put together. Super hilarious! The protagonist has basically no knowledge of sex and has the "No sex before marriage" thing going on which makes this game somewhat "unique" and not one of those games that copy the generic themes. .
The games I played had the same vibe to them, but this one was so different for me.
Sex scenes were nice and funny.
Can not wait for this to be completed, but its gonna be awhile.

The one very little thing i did not like was how the vagina looked on some characters, but its pretty minor. My favorite type of "species" is also here: Android and Demons! I hope to see more of them.

This game has almost everything. Good story, with lots of fun scenes, naughty scenes and violent scenes too, all mixed together in the story. It's all really well put together. There is also many different paths you can go through, some will kill you tho, but they are still fun to watch

Almost all kinks are in it, but if there is some you dont like, you can simply just not choose them, in case you don't like some of the tags you see

The renders look really good too and there is a girl/guy or alien for everyones taste and they come in all shapes and sizes

I usually dont play games that are not animated, but there are some movement during the sex scenes and they are really good, akward, funny and naughty
So I can't give it less than 5 stars, cause this is all really well put together.

Just not at all up my alley. I played through, turning down almost every opportunity because most aren't up my alley, and got killed by She-Hulk in the end. Lots of effort went into this, and my rating is for that effort, not my enjoyment of it, which would be 1*.

Quirky, fun and worthwhile.

So I'll start with pros:

The world is interesting, I enjoyed the kinda of underlying vibe that the organisation you're going to work for are probably evil tyrants and whatnot, and I hope/presume by the end you'll have had a way to make some kind of impact in that.
Also what with his fantasies/powers then they're able to throw in a ton of those stuff like demons and whatnot that you'd not normally expect in a sci-fi setting.

The writing was solid, I enjoyed the dialogue throughout and never felt like I wanted to start skipping text... I think the humour might be a bit hit and miss with some people but after playing a ton of lifeless games I was up for it and had fun.

The renders and everything are great, no complaints there.

The music was good and sometimes really added to the humour and things, though I do wonder if the dev might get into trouble due to some of it as I can't imagine they actually licensed some of those songs (but maybe there are ways around that or something, I don't know).

Given the diverse roster of characters then there'd be stuff for everyone, I found some of the aliens a bit much for my taste (though for completionist sake tended to bone them anyhoo just so I didn't get a fail message that'd make me feel bad) ... weirdly I think the most attractive one was just some random purple haired girl in a locker room, hopefully we'll actually get to dick her down and emasculate her boyfriend in the future rather than just see in in our/their heads (the unlocking of 'bull' content makes me hopeful but more on that later).

Mechanically it was kind of interesting with the way it dealt with unlocking kinks and kinda setting your preferences, and it did make it feel a bit fresher than your average game, though I've got some mild concerns I'll drop in later on.

The game was remarkably well polished ... even little things like at one point to get around the incest thing you have to say what relation the girl you call "cis" is to you ... obviously I played along and wrote sister ... but I noticed she automatically called me her brother (which makes sense, but it didn't force me to write that in like other games do) ... so being the troublemaker I am I went back and typed in some other stuff to see if she'd just say brother regardless ... and if you use obvious things like aunt, cousin, friend it automatically sorts it out and if you write something else it'll ask you for the inverse ... a real little thing but I was impressed (even if it missed him calling her Sis occasionally) ... if I do a fresh playthrough when the game is a completed release I might just make her my daughter even though that makes no sense as she's older, just for a laugh.

Oh and I am real annoyed when games kinda force you to use a walkthrough, but here there was handy sounds, a walkthrough in game if you were curious about paths untraveled and points flashing up on the screen to show when you gained or lost them with people - and I appreciate that.

So some cons (or at least concerns)...

Banana dick.

An MC who's as thick as a boars hide that's been lying out all summer - or whatever folksy thing he'd say.

The kinks enable/disable thing not really being that. So I disabled femdom (for example) ... then later in a scene to keep my relation with a different character I had to let the MC be femdomed (or however you'd say it), which then unlocked that content (despite me disabling it earlier), then later still I managed to make a choice which then re-locked it ... so I think it just needs to be worded differently, you're not really disabling content (like even with turning off dude related stuff there still was the pink text, which is a nice handy touch to know that'll lead to boylove, and I presume I coulda fucked that hairdresser guy) ... it just needs to say that it's what your character is currently inclined towards rather than content being disabled/unlocked.

Another concern is if the mechanics will really matter, like I liked unlocking stuff like wildman, utter bastard, and peril content ... but I wonder if there'll be enough stuff in the future that really serve those, or if it was just something to flash up on the screen at the time ... likewise the faith, obedience and tribalism stats - I would hope they'd end up being fairly significant later, but with all of these different mechanics I'm concerned if they'll ultimately not feel impactful (like just changing one thing here or there).

But don't read too much into those cons bit, it's an easy 5 and made my list of games I'd recommend, I want to see more of the smut, I want to see more of the story and world, I want to join the 8th branch (I presume that'll be something to do with his psychic powers)... so yes...
I would like to see more.

From the Department of Redundancy Dept.

Pros:
- Numerous and ingenious ways to fashion a character and story line. (More games should incorporate these ideas.)
- Unique setting and circumstance
- Good render quality
- Even though I'm not a fan of the music, the audio fx are way above average for a typical VN

Cons:
-Verbose! The country hick shtick goes on and on and...ad nauseam. So many words used to say so little. After playing for a couple of hours my mouse was taking a beating from all the fast clicking, so it was time to punt this game to the recycle bin