Ren'Py - Suspicious [v0.42] [Azteca]

Pros:

1- Renders are decent enough. They're mostly stock DAZ models with some minor modifications, so there's that.

Cons:

1- English level present here can be barely considered a step above Engrish.
2- Suffers from typical "Sandbox" Syndrome.
3- Most people need to Grind through their daily lives to put bread on the table, here you need to do it again to bang virtual girls.
4- Premise is okay, but at the moment it really doesn't go anywhere with it and its development will be a very slow burn due to forced slow progression player will need to go through outside of cheating.
5- UI needs a revamp or at least massive improvements.
6- Buggy.

v0.13
It's a grinding game, and a poorly implemented one. The renders aren't bad (though not amazing either) but in order to get to even some nudity it takes quite a bit of grinding.

I spent about an hour playing this game and I feel like the main character's relationships haven't changed very much at all. A few knew characters to grind relationships with opened up every now and then, but it takes so long to get anywhere with them that nothing interesting has happened.

The writing is borderline on what I'd consider readable. It's most notable in the beginning when there's more exposition. It's coherent enough to follow, but at times you'll wonder whether the writer is a native speaker or not. Though I've certainly read worse.

Story - 2.5/5 The premise might be interesting if it ever goes anywhere. I don't have the patience to find out if there's more to it than I got to or if this release is just light on content.

renders - 3/5 decent. Certainly fappable.

Characters - 2/5 there's at least an attempt to make the characters different from each other. But there's so little dialogue between the grinding that it's hard to get anything but the most basic outline of who a character is.

UI - 2.3/5 Not good. The map needs work. It took me a while to even figure out there was a map instead of just having to click through each area sequentially. And even still there's only 3 locations on the map. For some reason your work location wasn't included... probably because it's a street instead of a building, but honestly that's just makes that part of grinding inconvenient.

Gameplay - 2/5 it's a grinding game. I've played worse... but I've definitely played better. The pace at which you improve and unlock things is glacial. And to make matters worse, your suspicion is constantly trickling down as you wait for your stats to increase. So in the very begning it feels like you're gaining almost nothing and actually losing progress. Eventually if you focus on the right things you'll start to feel like you're getting somewhere (stat-wise. not plot-wise). So that's something at least.

Overall fun: 2/5 - I spent an hour on it hoping it would improve... so I guess I must have seen the potential in it. Maybe I would have even kept going if I knew for certain there was promising content, but the monotony of the game made me lose faith.