Ren'Py - Stranded in Space [Days 1-19 Elysium] [WildMan Games]

The game has way too many characters, we're talking upwards of 20, the skip speed is reduced by the dev which aggravates the problem.
Too much dialogue, especially introspection with the ai, it just goes on and on.
The main plot barely moves throughout the game. It's "stranded in space" except for 1/4 of the game which are flashbacks, again with more characters.

The good parts of the game would be that the dialogue and characters are decently written, the sex scenes are average, and the renders are good although sparse.

Pretty boring game with couple of nice features and a hell lot of bad ones.
You have big pull of LI but you will barely see those you are interested in.
You can chat with some of the girls online every day, but it's basically pointless.
What made me stop playing is the lack of player agency. If some girl wants to force herself on you she will suck your dick or fuck you, you won't get "decline" option. Combined with the fact that better half of girls are ranged from mid to ugly it's really bonerkill.
Also prepare to use LCtrl a lot, especially while talking to a pink robot girl. 1 cg for 50+ lines of dialog, sometimes more, MUCH more.

So it's not like game is bad, but for me there's no point in playing since i only like 4-5 girls and it's mostly kinetic novel, you have very little choices.

Won't recommend.

Excellent VN. the script by itself makes it worth going through the novel. It really is what makes it apart from other VN’s. Nothing is more disappointing than great graphics and poor scripting. The pace is well controlled.

Finally, reasonable character dialogue that doesn't make you hate the main character between actually good sex scenes with decent character models. Sure there are some characters I don't care about at all, but there's a variety and I don't need everything specifically catered to me because I'm not a child. Good-ass game!

This game has a ton of things going for it... a fun premise, nice looking girls, ok animations, and should at least be a 3 star game... but it's flaws can be summed up in 2 words "unnecessary dialogue"!

There is simply WAAAAAY to much useless back and forth between the characters. I honestly did my best to keep reading it, but it just kept going on and on, and I eventually just gave up and started clicking as quickly as I could just to advance the story.

A solid 75% of the dialogue could be cut out and it would be a significant improvement.

This game is the prototype. Every wannabe developer out there, take note, "THIS IS HOW WE DO IT". The messenger correspondence is legendary. Man if it was only real. Maybe one day. The only problem with this genre is that you have to do what the developer says, even if its your name in front. My choices obviously wouldn't be the same, but this is probably as good as it gets. (Skylar is mine, don't even get any ideas).

Great game. I really like the character models, the storyline is interesting. The animations are very good. The characters are nicely written. The author has a cool sense of humor, I really like the dialogues. The graphics are great. Personally, I don't like the fact that almost every girl is bisexual, I wish there was some choice whether we want threesomes or lesbian content. This game is every man's dream.
I bought the game on steam.
I look forward to the next update.
For me it's 5/5

I would really like to give this VN a 3.5 however that wasn't an option on the scale.

There is a lot to like here: the renders and models are well done. Lots of models to choose from which is something I really enjoy. Plenty of body shapes as well for everyone to find something or someone they like. The story is actually an interesting premise and the laptop content is really different and refreshing in a VN.

Unfortunately that's about all of the good here. This game suffers from a severe pacing problem. The game is so slow, and at one point I had to take a nap. I kind of expect an harem focused AVN title to feature more sex and more engaging scenes. Feels like we're being blue balled to death. You do eventually have sex with some of the girls but the one you do wants little to nothing to do with you besides the physical, you can't even choose to go see her. It also suffers from a lack of interaction with the user. Others have said this, but you can't even turn down people you just have to go along with it. I think there is an immense opportunity here to do branching and unfortunately the dev has already stated that this is a limitation of the dev.

The AI is a big big miss here. Overall I like the premise but it falls flat a lot. They have too many dialog lines and you can't even interact with the AI sexually. She talks a big game, but you never get to do anything with her, nor does she do anything to you. This could be a way to beef up the sex scene ratio and tone down the blue balling.

I have only been able to get to day 8 without losing interest but I really am not a fan of games that require you to invest a ton of time getting to know the interests before being able to pursue them sexually. I'm not sure this can even be classified as a harem game as several of the ladies aren't keen on sharing and it sounds like at some point you'll have to choose.

Not my bag overall, and there is some potential here just a lot of missed opportunities.

Whoever recommended this to me saying it's a really good game, you and I have very different definitions of good. Granted I only played about 3 hours into the game, perhaps it does get better later on but I don't care to find out.

This game is about absolutely nothing at all. MC existing in a spaceship filled with girls is the main narrative of this game. It had so much potential for setting up a good story - MC mysteriously finds himself in a spaceship with 1 year worth of lost memories and an AI mysteriously embedded into his brain. You can do so much from this but instead all of it is forgotten within the first 5 minutes of the game, instead MC immediately sets off on his main and only goal of sticking his dick into anything that fogs up the glass.

There is no agency given to players, there are no sense of participation for players as there are literally NO CHOICES in the game (up until what I have played), and I'm not saying that as an exaggeration, there literally hasn't been a single choice prompt 3 hours into the game. It's like watching the dev play the game while you're sitting on a chair on the back looking over their shoulder having no say in it.

The characters go on and on about stuff, they talk about nothing and everything at the same time, half of the girls throw themselves at MC, the other half are rude to him for no reason at all. "hey I'm a nice guy give me a chance" seems to be a recurring theme in this game. The ai inside MCs head is annoying as fuck, at the beginning she says something like she can read microexpressions of people and have a deeper grasp on them, that ability is not used a single time in the game, instead all she talks about is boobs and sex and MC continues going around acting like a goofball with the intelligence of a tree frog.

I haven't read a novel in a while, and it shows while playing this game because, holy shit, there is an insane level of dialogue. I'm sure the game has a nice story, but I couldn't confirm that because I was battling the sleep demons while playing it, and I lost.

When I woke up, we were still conversing with the AI in our head about the events that had occurred a few minutes ago. Like I needed a summary.

Best game (of this type/genre) I've played. If I could give it 6 stars, I would. The story is well written, with a few grammatical and spelling errors, but very believable and also really funny. The girls for the most part are attractive, with some exceptions, and the personalities and quirks of each are highly entertaining. Good job, man. I recommend this game to everyone.

I think this might be my favorite visual novel currently that is under the harem category but I will admit there are flaws to this game, mainly, not being able to turn down women. Seriously, I cannot believe in a visual novel revolving around lots of girls you'd think I'd have a choice about who I wanted to sleep with. Maybe I want to be loyal to my girl Ishani, have you thought of that?! In all seriousness, it's a great game with lovable characters, and the "choice" we had to make at the end of day 16 I think it was, was a brutal one, which I think is good for this kind of game. 5-star game, please in the future can we have more choices regarding if we want a romantic or friendly relationship on the ship? If I could give 4.5 stars I would but this game is definitely closer to a 5 than a 4.

Definitely one of my favorites right now. Excellent cast of characters, renders and animations. What shines the most is the dialogue. Many would be upset how wordy this is, but when you really take the time to read it, it is hilarious.

Always looking forward to the next update and Steam release.

great game a little long winded but awesome graphic waiting for future update need to be able to fast the chat in the computure sec and shorten the recap in the bed every day serve no puprose its better to shorten it or just remove it at all

Jesus, please get an editor! There is a good game in there, somewhere. The Social Media is fun and the girls talking to each other instead of just the MC is a nice change (even if it is all about him in the end). The choices are meaningful in the context of the story.

BUT this quickly degenerates into a wordy soap opera, where absolutely nothing ever happens. All the girls talk endlessly about trivial shit and I do mean ENDLESSLY. Even if you skip through the latest update, it'll take you an hour to go through lines and lines and lines and lines of text devoid of any meaningful content.

You are drowning your game in meaningless drivel.

The sex scenes that spawn in this ocean of words now and then, are animated but devoid of feeling. It feels very clinical, especially with the frozen unnatural smiles the girls display anytime everywhere, regardless of what they do or say.

Not recommended at this time.

Very well written, a lot of content and many girls with completely different characters. One hotter than the other. I've been playing for hours now and I'm still hooked. A great game. And the protagonist is Swiss, very cool.

The good:
The premise is interesting and it tries to be different. I like that.

The bad:
The author is basically talking to himself/herself and trying to crack himself/herself up the entire game. The author really likes to talk. Or type. Everything is talked to ad nauseum. There's even a social media part of the game, even though you're all on a ship and could just walk over to the other characters and talk to them face-to-face.

The AI in your head is hideous and stupid.

There's little choice when it comes to the players interest. If you're okay with girl-on-girl action and threesomes and orgies, then that's to your taste. This game might be for you. If you aren't interested in that, well you're kinda shit out of luck.

The sex scenes aren't rendered very well. Picture an oil well mechanism going up and down. That's how much fun it is to watch the sex scenes and that's what they resemble.

I was interested in a few of the mysteries, but the bad has outweighed the good, for my tastes, time to quit.

My advice. Pick up the pace - less words - they stand around talking to each other and that gets boring, quickly. Engage in characterization, they stand around talking to each other but it's like standing around talking to yourself, since the characters don't really stand out. Dev, or whomever the writer is, you're writing to make yourself chuckle the entire time. There's no let-up or pacing to the humor. You have to be really good at writing to do that, also the visuals need to support the humor. Take Robin Williams, for instance. His humor isn't in just what he says, it's how he says it. It's in his face, his body, his voice inflections. You have to bring that all across in your game to help the humor, if you want the game to be as zany as I think you want it to be.

The social media segment of each day is cool for a different type of game. It doesn't make much sense in this setting and it just bogs down the pace of the game.

First I want to say this game is very good, easily one of the best character driven harem games on here.

I will say if you're looking for a quick fap this is NOT the game for you, it has plenty of scenes but this game really relies on that build up of story, romance, tension to make the scenes really hit. Which while I love, is not for everything.

My only main gripe with this game is I found the 'main' storyline' a bit lacking, not that it isn't interesting to some degree but i often felt like it was interrupting these really fun character moments and I just wanted it to go away at times. This is a more personal bias I think though and not reflective of the quality of the game.

The sex scenes are done well and while mostly vanilla there are a few extra fun things in there that spice is up, i would have enjoyed a bit more kink overall but I think its all done great.

To me, this is a 5/5 game, one of the better written characters on this entire site to be honest, good scenes, unique models, fun premise, and an MC who isn't a total idiot. Whats not to love

This VN has pretty much everything tossed in there.

Great story
Amazing characters( only my opinion)
Amazing humor
Beautiful women

Mix all of those things together and you have Stranded in Space. There are so many things going on in this VN that you really don't want to miss any of it. The humor is excellent, the drama is in just the right amount that you don't get weighed down with it, and the crazy chick is hilarious as well.

When I first started this VN and discovered the humor, I hoped that it would last. ( because lets face it, sometimes the dev loses it after a certain point) but this didn't happen. In combination with the great story, and beautiful women, WildMan Games has done an excellent job at blending everything into a pretty awesome experience with this VN.
Good luck and keep up the wonderful work being done here. I highly recommend this VN

I would honestly give this game a five star rating if it was not for the paiges puzzles (I was in a major car accident a few years ago and these types of puzzles are too difficult thanks to having memory problems), zara (I can't stand being forced to be with a complete nutjob, I find her model very attractive but she is way too neurotic for what I can deal with) and the lack of pics/content in general with Lira and Elsie as they are tied for most attractive girls on the ship (in my book).

This game has made me laugh far more that most movies, t.v. and games that have come out in years.

Edit: Had yet to really play day 16 or 17 when I reviewed this. I dropped it a star because two of the characters did a complete 180 from shy/confused to straight nympho's. Chamila's body during one scene changed comepletely from having a tight fit body with a slight thigh gap while light skin to a body with thick chubby thighs, a chubby ass, chubby stomach and a dark tan. I don't think a single conversation didn't include the MC begging for anal (not my thing but I know many people seem to like having their dick covered in shit for some reason so I typically accept it, but when the MC just begs everyone for it it gets annoying). The sex room is understandable but also makes no sense considering we had to choose between two people to get a room just a short time ago and while one of them didn't get a room two girls just go off and setup a room just for sex when isn't that why the MC has a room of his own to begin with? If there is zero backlash over a room created for sex that is just going to be bad writing.

The dialog has also gotten really boring and I find myself skipping a ton of dialog, the game is starting to feel like single again in the useless dialog added to pad out the game department. The strip club back story makes no sense, the MC sounds like basically a virgin before turning 20 a year he can not remember only to be working at a stip club fucking everyone to then work for a mega corp fucking everyone to showing up on a spaceship unable to remember anything....Oh and please stop showing the MC in almost every scene, the game used to be mainly pov with the occasional scene with the MC completely visible to being mainly showing the MC with the rare pov shot.

Also the strange reverse triangle nipples and many of the girls straight looking like they are made of plastic or their bodies looking very different during sex scenes feels like the renders are being half assed.

I still enjoy the game, but day 16 and 17 felt like a HUGE drop in quality.