Ren'Py - Stuck in My Game [v0.6] [Niinko]

Tl;dr this is an absolute grindfest of a sandbox, and I'm sure you have way better things to do than play it. The graphics are nice for sure, but given how there's basically nothing else to this BUT those graphics, go view R34.

To elaborate on the grind, this is a gacha autobattler game. In order to assemble your team for the autobattler, you need to open loot crates. Then you unlock a hero. Great. Cool. Then you can talk to the hero to progress their affection to unlock adult scenes. But wait, you need to roll the hero at least twice for talking to them to build affection so you can view an adult scene. There are 3 star levels, meaning you need to roll the same hero 4 times in order to unlock all the scenes available. You need to do the autobattler to amass money, outside of the occasional lootbox you can find in the overworld that you unlock via the skyrim lockpicking minigame, which awards some cash. Oh also you can roll the same hero more than 4 times, and while you do get some money if you get an extra like that, doesn't change the fact that you're going to be spending HOURS grinding the boring autobattler to roll the gacha to maybe get the hero you need to keep progressing. Unless you're on the patreon that is, and then you get cheats to give yourself money / affection / stars. That's the game. Waste a metric shit-ton of time, or give the dev money.

The game would be okay, if the removal of core renplay features like skip unseen text wasn't hidden and using way to make it happen would crash the game.
The game is okay, but any attempt to make adjustements to its grind or speed will have the game kill itself loop.

Pretty good, shows some promise. Sandbox, so suffers from the usual sandbox tropes, and sandbox continuity bugs. Characters look good, and there's a story unfolding that's interesting enough. The 'combat' system is completely lacking any depth. Hopefully that's a jab at the vapid gatcha autobattlers it's poking fun at elsewhere.

Worth keeping an eye on to see if the issues get cleared up as it develops and it approaches its potential.

Great character selection—finally some solid League and Apex characters! It’s refreshing to see a lineup that actually captures the feel and personality of the originals. Well done! Will be watching this.

Not a bad game, actually. Actually...
Pretty characters, nice costumes, a short but attractively animated sex scene, some tactical combat until you get the hang of it (it goes very quickly), but then the negative points come in.

A ton of grinding, a random lottery that slows down progress, countless conversations with too-slow text speed, a nonsensical level cap.

You have to fight to buy tickets. The girls get stuck at level 15, but you've been level 35 for days. You fight against level 8 opponents at level 7 and only reach the next level once you've leveled up your new character to level 15. So you're fighting against level 10.
You should be able to reach level 9, but it doesn't work, even though your attack stats are significantly higher than your opponent's and you even have a tank on your team.
The only remaining opportunity for improvement is through drawing lots and a lot of chatter. It's frustrating.

Ight lets do this... [v0.4.3]
The game is a visual novel gacha game with some kind of patreon lock one one of the mechanics. Now having said this the visuals are good, I would personally like to see the "finishing" scene but it is what it is. Having said that the game is grindy, not hard just really grindy.

TLDR: Games average and could be better, but that's my opinion.
Art: 4/5 (Nice renders)
Story 3/5 (Get trapped in a 18+ version of your game)
Gameplay 1/5 (The weakest I have seen with gacha mechanics )

v0.3.0

Renders are pretty good. Story is ok since it is unique. Characters are from other franchises, which is a plus if you already know them. Everything is great, but it seems that the dev has put in some artificial roadblocks to try and monetize the game. Respect, but it significantly makes the gaming experience worse as it SIGNIFICANTLY increases the grind. Here are the downsides from this approach:

- Strategyless minigame. In the game, there is a small combat minigame, where you pick 4 characters and they autobattle the enemies. This is your main way of progressing the story. This gets old real fast, and there is no way to skip and there is no significant strategy to this minigame. The best strategy is to just queue up minigames as fast as possible to increase your earnings, without considering anything else
- Gacha system to unlock characters and sex scenes. Why are sex scenes artificially gated around rolling a character multiple times from the gacha? The best strategies to circumvent this is to keep reloading the save or to repeatably grind until you roll into a character or hit pity, neither are fun options. From my experience, it will take you ~4mins of sitting through mush and grinding just to earn one sex scene, assuming you abuse RenPy's save system. You can implement random systems without this super unfriendly high randomness system. For example, you could have a draft between 3 characters - where you get to pick one character to level up, ignoring the rest.
- High power Patreon exclusive content. There exists a black market, where you will get essentially no deals as a standard player. You can however, get access to more deals assuming you have a Patreon membership. There also exists a gacha in the game, where you can roll lewder and more powerful characters than normal, assuming you have a Patreon membership. It almost seems like the dev has artificially introduced this power creep content to incentivize subscribing to Patreon to bypass the anti-player mechanismisms currently in the game

Overall? Great game, if the artifical roadblocks weren't there. If the story really grabs you I would go for it, but I would recommend trying out something else without these F2P grindfest mechanics.

Good game with good visuals and animates but there can be a bit of a grind. The gameplay is somewhat monotonous as it is repetitive and sometimes you can't tell exactly what they next steps are, but the graphics makes up for this. Overall, I would redownload when new releases come out.