VN - Ren'Py - Stellar Incognita [v0.8.5] [Slamjax Games]

Story 9/10 some branches have 10/10
Story some 9/10 and some 8/10 so
It depends on branch you are in

Art 10/10 fits the theme and it's great
to me

Kinks 10/10 mind control and male domination,my favorite

Content 10/10 has alot of content and
Updated constantly

Replayability 100/10 has a lot of paths
and endings and 100 endings planned....

I have faith dev will complete the game
Soon ,cheers to a completed game

Honestly? An incredibly mediocre experience. 4/10 at best.

I'm unsure what the artistic reason for putting the weird sharpness effect over every photo, but I can say it certainly qualifies as unique. All I'll say is there's undoubtedly a reason other people don't use it. I assume it's to hide the fact the quality of the renders or models is worse than anticipated, but I have no clue.

I'm sure the story itself could've been interesting, but it isn't. Every pathway is both absurdly cartoonish and intensely dull. Because there's no way to be invested, every time you get lore dumped is a drag. Since the characters are so unrealistic, you pay no attention when they decide to string along these "oh, will he win? won't he?" storylines. Another point is that since the choices are almost entirely completely irrelevant to what actually happens in a pathway, the choices do not matter at all. They are entirely to assign an arbitrary path to the game rather than a REAL choice on what you want to see. You aren't choosing what you want the character would do, you're choosing the path to see whatever random content pops up.

This game is something else. Choices matter and its extremly fast paced. Not the best renders but i find them stylish. Porn is worst part (unless you are really into mind control) - i played it purely for plot
As of 0.7 it has almost 100 endigs - check it out!

I've played this game at version 0.6.0 and here is my opinion about it so far.

Plot: 5/5 You play as an anti-hero, with multiple, relatively logical endings, fucking the woman of the man that screwed your face in multiple scenarios, all the while reinforcing the fact that you have to be an absolute bastard to survive. What more can you ask for?

Art: 5/5 It may not be everyone's cup of tea but it certainly is mine! There are no animations, but the premise more than makes up for the lack of frills that many have come to expect from an adult VN.

Overall a very simple game executed marvellously and should be given a try if you are a connoisseur of the "infamous" fetishes.

I really like the different paths / side stories. One of the better games on this platforms. Developer(s) have a huge imagination to come up with a game like this. Looking forward to how this game will develop in the future, but so far, one of my favourites.

[0.40]

Pros:
-Lots of choices
-The choices actually lead to widely different outcomes
-Decent writing
-High amount of mind control fetishes (drones, parasites, brainwashing, etc.)

Neutrals:
-text to choice ratio can be rather high (meaning lots of reading before the game lets you make a new choice)

Cons:
-The models used for the women mostly look generic and lack variety (same height, bust size, skin color, etc.)
-Low quality shading / lighting setup makes everything look very flat and contributes to the bland / generic look
-Uses a weird blur filter. While that helps to make the scene composition appear more coherent it simultaneously greatly reduces texture details which again cheapens the overall impression.
-A personal pet peeve of mine is that all of the (admittedly many) choices lead to widely different scenarios (which *is* good) but none let you actually "play" the outcome. Just when you think "now things are getting interesting!" the game abruptly ends ("Congratulations! You reached ending 1238432") and sends you back to the title screen.

I am very excited to see how this incredibly expansive story develops. This is an ambitious project and I can't wait for more.

Talk about replayability. The mind control aspects work very well with the sci-fi timeline.

One of the few great games ! Keep it like that, it's truly enjoyable to play it All is nice, the story, the art, the idea, the perspectives for future content, it's nice to find this kind of pearls around here ^^

Great game This is sci-fi adult game done right. Unique world-setting and good detailed writing —— which actually serves sex scenes!
Models are good, captured the good girl gone bad vibe.
The render resembles old tv series which gives a surreal and sinister atmosphere. The characters having their own solid backgrounds.
Different endings, very branched-out.
The creator knows what he's doing, wonderful.

Going with 4 stars for now, kind of 3.5 but I'll round that up since it's early in development and will hopefully get better and there's definitely some fun stuff going on in the plot so far.
The story, concept, fets, those are all good. Give it a try for those and I won't say more since you can play it yourself. Right now if you're debating trying it it's a yes and the rest of this is TLDR.
Issue wise though, two things stood out.
One, the renders just aren't quality enough relative to what else is out there now to give full points for. While that might be a bit of a stylistic choice and they are not bad, it still is what it is and they're not great either.
Two, choice can be good but past a point it can have diminishing returns. When a game tries to branch as much as this one seems like it's going to, especially without a good gallery system or something, you can end up forcing a lot of replay on the player to see everything. You're almost turning a narrative game into a sandbox one. The replay value needs to be high to pull that off, not sure this game is aimed that way. It's going to need some streamlining of the plot and scenes down the road or it's going to be one of those games that makes you save at 407 different choice spots to see everything and that's tedium not gameplay.

Only downside is the graphics, even those aren't horrifically bad the gmae has several branching paths and already feels properly fleshed out for a first release, stick with this one itll be an interesting ride!

Very early stage, but what is there has the makings of an excellent story with themes heavily focused on corruption/mind control (method = technology & drugs).

Significant number of placeholder branching paths, about 30-minutes of story exposition so far.

What's there is well-done. Looking forward to seeing how this develops.