very good, there is a choice if you don’t like one of the ladies, send her to a separate room, you have to follow the relationship otherwise a bad ending, there are not enough other translations. Sexy MILFs are present, the forms of the ladies are not always proportional, but this has its own trick, I’m waiting for the content pregnancy.
очень неплохо, есть выбор если вам не нравится одна из дам отправьте ее в отдельную комнату, приходится следить за отношениями иначе плохая концовка, не хватает других переводов. Милфы секси присутствуют, формы дам не всегда пропорциональны, но в этом есть своя фишка, жду контента беременности.
Dropped it as soon as I saw the messy UI with miniscule text and shitty grammar. The renders don't even look that great so I can tell this isn't going to be worth playing.
P.S. You don't need to put "a" in front of every noun and you don't need to contract everything like "I am" to "I'm". It just doesn't make sense in certain contexts.
First time playing this, and I have to say it is mostly well done. I really enjoyed it until I hit a grind wall and the lack of hints. I dont know how to progress certain events at all. Pretty sure I was able to get most of the content, but some characters I have no idea.
Would give this a five star, but the phone tips are not super clear. People blame the RNG, and maybe that is probably why Im missing some content.
Firstly: this game you have grind hard, to get to certain points in the game. Which is similar to real life.
At first i counld understand the point in the game, but when i read some rewies about it. I finally understood the game. Then i started to really play and focus on the missions.
Now i am so addicted to this game, that i play it everyday after work a little to get new content. Also i decided to support him on patreon and never regretted the mistake. He is awesome, instant replies, helpfull, straight to the point if you do not know about the system at all( like me, i do not really undestand some pshycics, cause i´m into languages). In general.
If you like grinding hard at the start and reaping the rewards later, it is awesome. For me 10 out of 10 game. Keep up the good work and the balance in the game, that it has. Love it.
Hard to say what to give this game. Without the mods it would be a solid -1. The grind in this game is on par with Big Brother, dont think they get any grindyer. Played 3+ hours with $ cheat and still only got a brief peep on family.
With cheats and walkthrough I play it when I have nothing better to waste time with. Using all cheats and mods it still is more grind than most games.
Renders are slightly below average, models the same, animations (what few there are) can barely be called animations. Writing is horrible, ESL.
+1 star for amount of content and regular updates.
Play this one if you like banging your head against the wall because it feels real good when you stop.
Like it a lot a lot of content and the different system in compare to other games - i like the managemet parts in the games - you can discover more and more girls and scenes in this game with a little bit of patience its a lot of fun - looks good and has a lot of playtime
Im actually surprised with the quality of the game. Which is definitely in top 10% of Ren'Py games. Story is also quite intenteresting despite being the usual father is locked in prison/away and you as a main character need to take care of the family.
Grinding hell, the characters are plain and uninterstering, nothing really happends in the game for a long time, I don't know I at least expect the game has something good, but the only thing I like was the desing of the red head, but apart fromt that was a waste of time, at least for me.
Hidden behind the clunky and somewhat old school grindy mechanics and slightly 'off' grammar is actually a very well thought-out game with a lot of interesting features.
Some of the grind is annoying but the game seems to be a slow build-up (although everyone is at least a bit frisky to begin with but it's tricky to move from sexual banter/close contact to actual lewd stuff) that rewards patience and planning.
If you think of this game a sort of a a time/action/location economy management puzzle, and like those sort of things, it definitely has a lot of merit. Even if some of the repetitive clicking gets annoying after a while but at least, while grindy, there has actually been put thought into the balance, duration and narrative reasoning for (some of) the grind, as far as I can tell.
Good renders, Beautiful cast of characters, hot scenes. Wide variety of scenarios and routes to getting laid.
Why 2 stars then? This is pretty much the epitome of everything wrong with sandbox games. Every single staple of an awful sandbox game is here.
Micromanaging stats? Check! Grinding for money? Check! Time sensitive events? Check! Characters having overlapping events forcing you to pick one and have to wait til the next day/week? Absolutely! Payoff for hours of grind being a 1-2 picture scene until you get the the final stage? You betcha! A cryptic hint system in which you lose track of what to do next? Of Course! The bulk of lewd scenes for the first few hours are just looking at the mc's dick? Obviously!
The list goes on, you name a terrible sandbox element and this game has it in spades. Even with cheating it's such an incredible grind. I played for something in the neighborhood of 8 hours and got 54 days in and still haven't had anything more than a low effort bj scene. The only reason I even know that there are good scenes is because I downloaded a save that is on day 300(!!!!) which does unlock almost all the interactions with the girls. Even then, you are exposed to a lot more of the oppressive mechanics of the game like having to get condoms before the girls with sleep with you, like wtf?
there is a lot to love about this game but it's built on such an awful foundation that it drags everything else down with it. I can forgive the clunky UI, the engrish, and hell even the cryptic tasks but that sandbox just emphasizes all that and takes away from the large beautiful cast, good scenes, when you do finally get some action it's well made, I mean the stepmom alone is some really hot stuff.
This is an excellent game and it has a good story. I would recommend this game to everyone. With some extras like clothing change options etc. , it could be one of the greatest games ever. Also, some pregnancy content may add some extra flavour to the game.
Let's start with the good things this game has;
>steamy hot interactions especially with landlady.
>good animations.
>renders are top notch too.
And the actual problems.
>this one's hot mess and by mess I mean real fucking mess. Normal human brain can't apprehend the amount of confusion this game has to offer.
>no inbuilt walk-through or anything of sorts which will make the few thousand renders look like 15/20hr gameplay.
>sandbox is real fucking tragedy here. I played many sandbox game but this one's right up there with most excruciating sandbox mechanics of all time.
>time bound daily and compulsory chores are cherry on top.
>only way to get something outt
a this is by using cheat codes.
Final thought: i have to say this one doesn't reward the amount of hardwork you put in the game. Inbuilt walkthrough might do the trick but oh well....
I really like this game. It has a lot of possibilities to interact with a lot of hot ladys. Some nice renders and it feels quite open. Way more fun than this standard VNs. Also nice footjobs. I like the dynamic wih mom and his sister. The breaking locks mechanic to spy on the girls is also a nice addition.
I really like this VN, the sandbox isn't over done and is pretty simple, it could use some more dialogue when interacting with characters, maybe special events such as dates and hang out sessions that are more varied, I liked most of the characters but it could use more romance to instead of the gain points then randomly ask a Li to be your gf, the main story is interesting and building up slowly so thats fine
The reason I gave 4 stars is because the older sister is kinda a slut in my opinion and it just reminded me of fasders VN Life which pissed me off, you get to the point in life where you finally sleep with the sister and after she goes into a monologue of how she was a frustrated slut, in this one it's a little different but the same in Principle, the mc and older sister have sex for the first time and it's a surprise, the second time they have sex the older sister comes home drunk wanting the mc and goes straight to anal claiming she knows how to work a dick and this other crap, it just gets overused in incest games where the older sister is like this
Would I still recommend it? Yes but that kind of content if prevalent in the future will more than likely make me unsub, it's really annoying having to grind to then find out that stuff
Edit- turns out it got worse with the interacting with older sister, apparently she got around with her friend but she's never worshipped a dick like she does her brother, just makes with think she was a cum dumpster before moving to the motel and getting with the MC
Most of the other Li's- slut or slutty, like really Dev you don't need to go so far into detail about how someones a professional cocksucker or how she got around fucking before worshipping the MC, I'm Tryna get involved in a harem builder not a slut trainer
Anyway even with these things there's still no ntr or sharing and the mc is the obvious focus with everything so I'll stay subbed but seriously tone down how slutty the girls were in the past, just a suggestion not telling you what to do
Good dialogue, interactions and models. Might be confusing at start, since the game is a bit complex. But once you get into it, its not so bad and a lot to discover. The game has a bit of grind which can be skipped a bit with cheating, mostly the money situation. But as most games be careful not to trigger events that will break the game.
I played this game a long trime ago and really enjoyed it. However, I came back a while ago (twice) and tried to play with save games but the changes meant I was all over the place with not really knowing what was going so I gave up. I was too lazy to start again.
Yesterday, I started from the beginning and I am even more impressed than I was the first time I played. The aunt and the SM are possibly two of my favourite chars in any game.
The renders are very good, storyline is acceptable and the grind isn´t over the top. It can be a bit annoying not knowing how to do certain things and relying on searching through threads isn´t great. (A good walkthrough would really help), but it doesn´t really ruin the experience.
There are perhaps a few too many roads to traverse that mean you have to choose which one you go down and have to ignore others for a while, but overall I think this is one of the best games Ive played in a while.
Straitened times is a game that could have been great but alas it self-cuts his wings for some bad gameplay choices that extend surely the playtime but not the fun.
It’s a sandbox game that gets grindy immediately, but not because you need lots of money or items, but because you’ll need to see an event at least 5 times in a row to get to the next scene, and you are clueless in this world.
The hints are cryptic, you don‘t have any lead what to do next, you will experiment any stuff, trying to get a sex scene only to find a blue balls mirage.
My ctrl button is probably broken by now, I had it pressed more than half the time, wandering from the school to the hotel, from the hotel to the school, from the school to work, all of this trying to balance the energy bar.
The game surrounds you with beautiful girls and great sex scenes only to make you those unreachable.
You’ll play a dumb mini game to guess the interests of a character while they look at you, straight at your soul, pondering on the next step till you get some Enlightening thought to try some other stuff and then repeat the cycle.
When you finally get to a sex scene, you’ll be the happiest individual around, all the work is fulfilled for a great sex scene… But was it worth it?
Hell no.
I like slow burning plots, but this one, with an annoying gameplay just tires you out.
Characters and writing are decent, but most of the time I ignored all the sexy girls the game threw at me, because I was trying focusing on one and doing multiple girls at once, requires you a strategy that could scare even a chess player.
Overall I don’t recommend it, my time felt not as wasted as other games since I saw some progress at the horizon even if it was minimum.
If you wanna play it, make sure to have a lot of time to waste, or a walkthrough, because even with that the game will feel still as grindy.
I like Straitened Times game, I really like it
the story is really good
nice animation
The depth of character is great
I'm really looking forward to the latest update
Good job Dev
I will wait for the latest update again
I love Straitened Times game.
Nice game!! ;D And thanks for the dev(s) for putting in the effort.. I'd say well worth it to give it a shot. A bit tricky to find all the content, but quite a bit of content available easy, though in a sandbox where you have to work a bit to get to the lewd scenes.
I normally skip games when I find it a too much of a puzzle to advance. I don't want to invest into learning adult games. I mainly just want to check the content.. But this one dragged me in as it started of simple, made visible progress and while there are quite a bit of repetitive content, for much of it you get a little further each time, keeping you coming back for more. Not too bad a way of reusing content to make the game a bit longer.
The girls are hot and I liked the story too. Graphics well done, and animations are actually animations with many frames per second, and not 4 pictures alternating as I've seen in many games elsewhere.
Still playing 0.23.0 family edition. 0.23.1 is out I see, but haven't found a patch, so will wait a while before re-downloading the whole game. No critical errors found in 0.23.0, apart from game stopping before the story is complete
Yes, there's a bit of a grind to go through the content, but I have no idea why people call it extreme. I feel it's more on-par with other such games, but easier to get into, and more visible progress.. Trouble is finding all the triggers to get to new content..
Also they say English in the game is bad all over the forum. The author probably don't have English as his first language, but I think the English is easily understandable. While he may for instance say leave when he means live, the meaning is easily understood by the context in all errors I've seen so far. (Though I must admit I've been playing with skip unseen on, so can't say I've read it all)
Some game suggestions:
- It's annoying with plenty available options for chatting that just replays the same things you've seen without anything happening. To get stuff to trigger you end up going back to the same places you've been and picking the same chat options over and over in hopes of some advancement to trigger something new. Also, sometimes when you get new options, and eventually get stuck, the solution might be to press some old option that has not done anything for ages, but that is now the way to advance after you gotten past some other state.. Would be nice if content you've already accessed, that won't trigger anything new, will be clearly marked so you see that there's no reason to go there unless to replay old content.
- It would also be great with some kind of guide/hints as to how to unlock more content when you're stuck. I have no interest in playing the game by following a walk-through with 1000 steps. I'd rather have a place to lookup details, of if I'm stuck at this task, how do I get further, or if I can't progress one of the girls at some point what should I do to move on.. I think some was well handled, as for instance how to find the sisters jobs, where you get the hints while you're doing it, and the hints aren't too vague. Some examples of stuff I think I used way too much time to figure out:
- Ability to skip day (possibly only from your room in morning if that simplifies it) without any negative consequences. Each skip, ticks of one shift worked at diner, gives attendance at school and don't shift any relations up or down. Tiresome when you get far into game to keep replaying the same bits over and over to keep people happy, while waiting to try something different next week or in 3 days to see if that makes you able to advance something.
Another example of a good game that was marred by the Dev's wrong decisions.
The renders are very good, the models are beautiful, the story has a creative idea of a second family and it takes place in a hotel.
But problems arise at the beginning:
A non-objective hint system, boring tasks, and overly grindy. The confusing tips and so many repetitive tasks soon become boring and take away the player's immersion.
With a cleaner tip system and 50%
less grindy, this would be a 5 star game.
English is not my native language.