Ren'Py - Superheroes Suck [v1.976 Public] [Solace]

It's ok. Starts off pretty well and fizzles out a little once the gameplay properly starts. The game is lacking something strong to carry the momentum.

Gameplay doesn't do it, it's too minimal and the schedules in the game are too stiff. Even thought they do play into character progression, it still feels a little repetitive.

Story doesn't do it either, the "become a superhero" motiff isn't particularly strong and there's not much of a plot outside this single premise.

Characters are, I think, what were supposed to do it, but they're a little flat and the attempts at giving them depth are, so far, way too on the nose.

I'm still only a handful of events into each character's storyline, so maybe it is yet to pick up but so far, it's nothing special. Worth a play if you're into the super hero thing.

Even though I think the animation quality isn't that great, the writing is incredibly fun, especially for the characters, and the character designs themselves are really good. Plus, the dev has said he's working on cutting down on the grind, which was pretty much my only substantive criticism of the game.

This is a hidden gem. As I stumbled across this game by accident, I was very pleasantly surprised. What appears to be a cliché, run of the mill take on a quick game focused of sexual gratification of the player gives way to layers of thought and planning woven into a very engaging story which pulls you in the more you play it. The writing exhibits the intelligence of the author and the logical aspect he provides by going into the specifics of how certain things are so in the realm of the game.

The renders and animation show a promising and consistent improvement with further iterations of the game(evident clearly with the crisp animations and well proportioned renders).
The characters contain complexity beyond what is apparently evident to the eye. They have their skeletons in the closet and it is endearing to watch them overcome those bit by bit with the help of the MC.

Coming to the MC, his predisposition is a breath of fresh air. While his general view on life appears pessimistic at first, the rekindling of hope is seen evident in his development in the academy. His predisposition to be kind, good natured, well adjusted(and not being a creep to boot which is ace) makes for a very relatable MC that one can root for.

All in all, I'm certain giving this a chance will bring forth many hours of engaging story and scenes crafter to a very reasonably good manner.
I cannot wait to see how it progresses further.

Best of luck dev!

Another over hyped game that really suck as the title says.First it should be a vn not a sandbox game cause you do nothing more then jumping from a place to another at a specific time of the day to get the next convo with a girl ,the renders are average at best and the sex is done horribly, boring story with dull lifeless characters, but hey people are saying it is good so try it yourself and see...

First a disclaimer... I follow 99 Ren'Py games and of all of them, this is by far my favourite (note Canadian spelling) .

What makes this so good is that it is just a really "nice" game. The MC is a good guy and the female companions are all really good, none of them are without problems but each character is basically a decent human being trying to navigate their lives as best as they can.

Riley is my all time favourite character and she is uber sexy and perfect (just add in any superlative you can think of...it fits).

This is one of those games you can just play for enjoyment, it is not horrible and dark, no creepy beings or characters (don't know about the criminals but it is OK with me if enemies are creepy).

Superheroes suck just hits all the right buttons.

Well this unexpectedly became one of my favorite games. MC’s inner dialogue is hilarious, the girls are all have unique personalities, it’s not too much of a grind, progression is good, and the renders are above average. Overall it’s a really fun game and surprisingly charming.

One of the best games I've ever played. Sweet, funny, hot. Every girl is unique and a delight in her own way and the scenes are masterpieces.. Not too grindy, but doesn't go by too quickly either. The story is well-written and has a good share of humor. Definitely worth reading every slide. And there's a cat! What more could you want?

Might not be the most visually stunning or have the most beautifully written story, but by golly, once I got I started I simply couldn't stop. Each girl is delightfully different personality and I like the little detail that the girls breasts are not gigantic but realistic.

engaging story with beautiful models and excellent game dynamics. Updates are quick with a decent amount of material for the time between updates. The characters are all different in appearance as well as differing attitudes, which makes each unique and lovable. A nice change of pace from the mom and sisters with inflated breasts.

Very entertaining, has interesting characters where you care about what happens to them, the main story is interesting and leaves you wanting to know what is going to happen, the renders are decent and the use of super powers is interesting the release rate for content is decent and the amount in each update is alright

I like the beginning, it seems that I wanted to build a story that I liked, the H scenes were good, the development of the characters was liking me until the first H scene arrived, which seemed super forced and from there I fell apart, I had good base, decent characters an idea in general but everything seems super forced to me and the first 10 minutes that seem to be that he really put an effort into developing something fell apart just for wanting to get to H scenes quickly. I know we want to get to those scenes but it seems very sad to me that having very good bases to create a game with a good story, characters that can be developed in a good way, they waste everything just to get to show H content quickly without context.

The first scene H when you are with Harper in his room, the only context that there is is that since he saved her he became interested in him to the extent of wanting to fuck him and then during the scene the proragonist does not even say something relevant about how he feels with the situation and others, he just sucks it off and so he will continue without context later in the other scenes, so it is with the other girls.

First they show us how the character of each girl is but until there it stays, instead of exploiting it more so that it becomes a fantastic game with development, they only show us a little bit of each one and then it is to fuck and fuck. All this makes me sad because the developer has the bases and ideas with the girls' personalities but I don't exploit it, I don't feel any difficulty and you don't feel satisfied or realized having reached the point where you finally hook up with some girl because all that is left aside.

Even so I will continue playing the next updates.
This is my own opinion, someone likes lewd but with context.

Sorry for my english xD

Stunning game.

It's hard to give many games five stars but I have to for Superheroes Suck. The beginning of the game is a little janky, sure. The animations are a tidbit wonky but that doesn't matter. That is overtaken by the genuinely interesting, hilarious and feel-good writing.

Whilst it feels like things progress a little too quickly, you can't exactly fault the Dev. I believe the Dev could add in more interactions, parts of the routes for each girl and more. The renders in the newer versions are gorgeous and the game has great animations. I can't recommend it enough. This game has my 100% support.

A great story and plenty of scenes, good looking renders, well paced with little grind compared to story content. Early animations are a bit jank but later ones are much improved. Well worth a look in.

Pretty fun. There is some stats grinding that you can't skip with the console because it's bound to events that get old fast. The story is decent, and the characters are amusing, definitely something to play if you're bored.

Genuinely impressed about this one. The dev has managed to make all of the characters likeable and appealing. Further the story itself is not hot garbage like I would have expected and had a great time playing it.

I have criticisms for sure:

- Faces for Mrs. Powell and Harper (oof!)
- The Academy looks somewhat poor
- The free roam is very clunky
- The whole stats and grinding (little to be sure) seems rather pointless given there's so few checks against.

Keep at it, its a really good game!

Enjoying the Game so far

I think it show good potential for the future.

I am looking forward to seeing how this develops and what features get added in the future.

The girls are cute and the idea of building your own Heroine team . harem is kind of appealing lol

Lovely models, janky animations, and an interesting story sabotaged by how improbably eager everyone is to jump your dick.

Dead end loser, discovers he may have superpowers and gets recruited by "not-Wonder Woman" to her academy where your co-students are four attractive women. Points for not having mind control or corruption as your superpower (it's possible that you have a super erection capable of stopping cars but it's not clear yet). It's a little odd that most of your teammates don't tell you their power, you would think that would come up pretty early but does lead to some funny speculative scenes.

Gameplay is eh. It's set up like a sandbox stat grinder but there's only one or two things you can do at each time of day so it ends up being very linear. If you've unlocked an event you do it in the morning or you can grind Confidence. In afternoon you grind Aptitude or Fitness--they alternate availability. In the evening you grind Confidence.

What dragged this game down for me is the how ridiculously horny three of the four classmates are. You have the sheltered virgin who loves romance novels and has a crush on you. Almost immediately she asks you to teach her the ways of sex.
Then there's the robotically cold Russian girl who starts working out topless because she thinks it will motivate you. She also starts dating and having sex with you and it's not really clear whether it's because she thinks it's a competition or because your other tutor is. Honestly, I found her character really off-putting and was fast-forwarding a bit by this point so I may have missed some explanation.
Finally, there's Chrys who's a try-hard goth/rebel girl with hidden depths. I really wanted to like this character and it seemed to be building up to something great. Early on she teases you a couple times but then makes excuses and backs off--presumably because of nerves. As soon as you have sex with someone else that all goes out the window and she becomes kinkiest character so that was a waste.
The only girl you can't have sex with as of v0.40 is Riley--the redhead married to a jerk. Easily bestgirl.

The animations are choppy. I know dev is rendering this on a hamster wheel but these girls love to wink and when it takes multiple frames it's off-putting in a Lucille Bluth-type way.

Overall, really enjoyed playing through current content and the models are great. Just a shame that the relationship writing is noticeably lacking compared to the rest of the writing.

Very unusual story, weird characters and well done animations. Don't get me wrong game need more work on it yet with improvements I bet this could another fantastic game to my collection.

Way to go mommy Chrys.

As per v0.4.
Nice game, not a big fan of sandbox/stats building games but grinding here is quite easy to schedule and tests are easy to pass if you don't skip any timeslot. Also, having different texts to show your progress helps a lot to avoid that boring feeling of repetitions. Intriguing main story about an Academy for young superheroes trying to get a grasp of their powers, with lots of questions to be answered (MC's origins and powers, girls' pasts and relationships, villains...). It's well written, with a good sense of humour. Girls are nice and different, I personally love their facial expressions during conversations, lot of good work there. Also, a simple but effective UI with hints allows you to understand what should be your next step with each girl.

Sex scenes are the only flaw at this point, they feel a bit short for the work needed to unlock them, but Dev said he's working on it so let's hope for an improvement on this area. All in all, a great game with a good potential

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.40...

This VN/Game may be more porn focused then story focused, but it has a lot of other redeeming qualities and shows lots of promise...

The visuals of the characters are from good to high quality, most of which I've not seen before... The backgrounds range from decent to high quality, only some of which I've seen before... There are some animations, but most are not fluid, but instead use a form of multiple still images played in fast repeating sequence... The few that were fluid, were very well done... It almost makes me think that the fluid animations were something the developers changed to in later development, and I fervently hope they decide to revisit older animation types and replace them with this same higher quality fluid animation style, as it looks far superior... The UI is simplistic and easy to figure out...

The script is mostly well done, as I only ran into some spelling/grammar errors now and then... The plot for the main story revolves around a male protagonist living and working a drab and boring existence... In the world there are super heroes and super villains, as well as other varying levels of other super powered people... The protagonist ends up jumping in to help a downed super heroine and in the process learns he has some form of super power, which leads him to becoming a student at a Super Hero Academy ran by a local female super heroine...

After the introduction story the VN/Game switches to a navigation mode style stat grinder, where you can select where the male protagonist goes during certain times of the day throughout a given game week... There is a schedule of events for the protagonist to partake in, but in the end it's the player/reader who can decide where to go and so on... There are some basic stats, as well as a currency type stat for spending on special events as you go through the varying female characters story arcs... There are also hints for each of the primary female characters, in case you get lost on what to do next to further each characters stories...

The main female characters are in someways initially stereotyped, but to my amazement I think the developers did a bang up job with their personalities and character development... WARNING: About to get into some deep Spoiler Territory... As an example, the goth girl plays out like what you initially suspect for a goth girl setup in these things, but you can tell how the developer added subtle hints in her dialogue and story events that she is not all that she seems... What you are initially presented with is more like a mask she puts on, to seem more like a tough girl persona, where as her character has far more depth to it and is hiding behind that tough girl act for whatever reasons... This kind of dynamic holds true in some ways with all the various characters, as you go through their story arcs...

In essence, yes there are plenty of erotic scenes to be experienced, as you would expect from a more porn focused VN/Game, but there is also enough decent story telling that goes on in the various character story arcs and game play, to give this one a bit more depth and meaningful plot then what you would typically see in this style of game play... Some of the events had me rolling in my chair laughing they were so hilarious... I even felt some emotional attachment to the characters... Each character had a well developed background, that played well into how they reacted towards certain choices as well as the inter-character relationships...

The grind itself, is not so bad, although there is definitely some repeating events as you grind up the few stats that require it... But not to the degree that I've seen in lots of other stat grinders... I don't mind grinders like this one too much, as I didn't feel like most of my game play revolved around it.. Plus, on occasion you may think you're about to do yet another grind event for a specific stat, yet again, but then the event plays out a bit differently with some new content perhaps...

The only real primary issue I had, was that most of the erotic content events felt rather short... Some were so short as to be just a tiny amount of animation, followed by a quick orgasm, and done... That is probably something the developers need to put more attention into... Having them be longer, especially when you may be trying to convey some feeling of emotional attachment between the protagonist and the characters, adds more to that feeling of a building relationship... Where as a very quick event, feels more like a slam-bam thank you ma'am type of situation, were the characters had no emotional investment, and it was just a meaningless quick and fast sexual encounter...

Overall, I was expecting this VN/Game to be yet another highly repetitive porn style grinder, with over the top stereotyped characters... But I was pleasantly surprised that although it does have some grind, it's not that bad... And the characters have unique personalities that should not always be taken at face value, and each one develops in different and various ways... Enough so that it adds depth to both their personalities, traits, and also to the individual character story lines... The main plot does play out, but at a slower pace in comparison to the individual character story arcs... Yet it doesn't feel melodramatic or over the top, and although it is not the focus of the game play, it does tie in to the various character arcs, and the protagonist, as he goes through those arcs...

Of all the Super Powered style erotic VN/Games I've played, this is one of the better ones thus far... It is still early into it's development, and does have a few kinks to iron out, but for me it shows a lot of promise... I look forward to reading/playing this one again in the future, once it gets more content under it's belt...