Ren'Py - Sweet Affection [v0.10.5] [Naughty Attic Gaming]

This has been out for almost 6 years now and has little to show for it.

Definition of grindfest....many scenes take 200-300 clicks to finish the conversation. Would certainly help if they used more than 1 short sentence per text box.

MC is a real sleezeball who tells a girl she is the most important thing in the world to him..etc.. then turns around and says the same thing to the next girl in the room, then promises the same to the girls next door and wants to move in with them, then goes to the bar and tells the girl there that he doesn't have anyone special and isn't in a relationship. Unfortunately you can't change that behavior as there aren't any choices...you just have to do that with every girl in Sweet Affection.

When you 'finish' a scene and go to a different room, everyone acts like it's a new day and they haven't seen you before. ie...you can have a scene/convo w your mom in the bedroom, but goto the kitchen and she acts like you just came home...

Gas station, no content added yet..... after 6 years?
The other few places you can access have very minimal content.
Phone still under development?....after 6 years?

Graphics are very entry level and very amateurish. It should have improved in the last 6yrs....
Still bright and sunny at the beach at 10pm.
Not very many locations to access.

Characters are terrible looking and just the same old boring stock images many other games use.
Movements/animations look weird and gross....like when kissing.

Finally, there's NO WAY this game should be over 20Gb in size..... 7 or 8Gb for the compressed version...
Just insane.....

Befor I get started, I just want to make a statement, that I'm here to look for some games to fap with. So you can consider me a desperate fapper.
Now let's talk about this game. It's got amazing size, which can make people like me think this game is promising. However, the quality of the pics are excesively high, I dont know if it's of 4k cuz I do not have a monitor good enough. And out of the hundreds of scenes this game provides, you have got only few sex scnenes (I'm not into foreplay scenes so I dont take them as sex scenes). And most of the scenes you can enjoy, are those kissing scenes. And you can have tons of text to read.
I mean, Im here to find a game to fap with, and sorry I just fapped my brain out so I lost my ability to read too much, but does a game really need so many dialogue to be a good one?
Plus, accroding to some lines I've read with my tiny brain left, girls in this game just meet the MC and they got a feeling on him. Really? I've only read this kind of plot in some games where the MCs have the power of a inccubus or a succbus is helping them out.
Not a good game to fap with imo.

This had potential to be 5 stars but man it has issues that could drag it down to 2 tbh so lets see why?

Pros-

• Pretty good renders.
• Wide range of women to enjoy
• Most of the women have many scenes
• Good variety in types of scenes
• A fun camera texting feature for more content
• The money grind is easy to overcome early on
• Theres easy to access guides to find new scenes

This is pretty much all you need for a 5 star game. BUT unfortunately we are dragged down by

• WALLS of text. Like my man, we do not need an essay to read for a simple conversation
• Walls of text
• walls of text
• walls of text

Another minor issue is the time system. What I mean is there is an hourly clock which moves the NPCs to different location, gives different dialogues with different scenes. It makes it a bit tedious to see them all and to revisit scenes. Imagine saying oh I loved the cowgirl scene for character x, gotta go at 8pm to catch it.oh no it was only available at 7pm, now I only get the doggy scene. Just simplify it to morning, afternoon, night maybe with a few more for early, late. For each time of day give us the clear choice of what we see and you can make it so much easier for everyone.

I have only have 2 words to describe this game... Boring Grindfest. The only saving grace of this game are some of the models, but that's it. Generic music, generic boring animations and no sound effects make it even more boring. I can understand the dev wants a buildup of relations, but with the MC being a complete simp acting like a 12 year old seeing boobs for the first time is even worse.

The dialogue needs a complete overhaul from the beginning. Half the time my brain hurts just trying to understand the spelling and grammar. The other half I skip through with a lot of scenes just repeating themselves.

I understand the focus of the game is on the 2 "relatives" living in the same house of the MC, but with very little story progression of the other characters in the game since it started is pretty bad. The game should just be renamed House Affection. You basically have all these separate games combined into one big game with all the different storylines. Unfortunately, it will never be a harem game.

Maybe in another 3 to 4 years with true progression of the other characters in the game might make it worth playing. And the so called "events" are so short they don't even seem worth the time of doing them.

Solid game, ok animation, bit long on the dialogue. I find it funny that some people decided to rate a game 1 star then write an essay about it. The time it takes to write that you'd find a game you like

Skip unseen text - best option for this game.

There are insanely long dialogs, especially on dates. There is nothing important, they are mostly looking at eachother, talking and smiling. There is no need for player input and its really convenient to skip the whole 50 page filler dialog in a few seconds.

Thankfully mundane events have short dialogs and they are quite enjoyable.

I liked the corruption levels being shown in everyday interactions with mom and sis. With levels every dinner, movie, sunbath becomes more naughty.

Mechanically its a simple game. No problems with money. Keep interacting with girls to rise their affection, then buy new dress and go on a date to increase relationship level.

Diaries are nice idea to get into girls thoughts. Just a few sentences about your interaction. It would be great, if all dialogs in this game were short and straight to the point like diaries.

There are alot of forced relationships. If you are interested in sis only, you still have to increase relationships with mom and even Granny, wtf?!? This ruins the mood for me.

nice game, this is my kind of games, slow burn to the goal. The history and how you slowly unlook the kinks on the family..... uff. Animations are great, character development really nice, the conflict slowly solving is really nice, its a shame the it feels like its on the en of the road.

This has the distinction of being one of the most annoying games I've ever played. It's wordy to the point of being ridiculous but there's something about the characters that makes it impossible to stop playing. I WANT to advance with every character and see what's coming next, while being constantly concerned that they're all going to find out about each other and remove the MC's genitals in revenge.

It's called Sweet Affection and it certainly does have that lovey-dovey feel to it. I like the diary system, it's nice to see something like this. I think it adds something useful and interesting to the game.

Problem that I can see is that once you've unlocked the sex scenes with one character, from then on it's all pretty much the same thing just with different pixels. So unless the dev is aiming for one huge orgy at the end, it's difficult to see where this is headed.

Having said that, I can't stop playing the damn thing so the dev is doing something right...

--Edit--
I'm not going to change my rating but there's n o way I'm downloading this one again. It's become far too large, even the 'low quality' version is nearly 8GB - that's just ridiculous.

Story is a bit weird, like at the start some girl steals money from you and when you find her again she tells you she stole your money so she could pay her tutor? really....a tutor?...anyway you can see its a very vanilla and boring.
Also Sharing is forced on you as well, Rosa and Donna whos mother and daughter is in a sexual relationship with one another and you can go after either but you cant be with one alone, its close to being NTR since either can be a LI and if you want one of them you cant you have to share them and be with both, its a bit to shitty for me since i hate the mother so game is unplayable without free choice.

Next you meet the thiefs familie and get your ass kicked by her father? and also finds out that the theif ahd her mother might be in a sexual relationship? i mean what? then the thief and her mother gives you a key to their house? again what? they known you for like 2 mins....dosent really make any kind of sense and feels quite a bit weird.

Then Rose talk to MC she says shes happy she stole money from MC with the mother right next to her and mother says nothing about it, something Rose and MC kept hidden to for appreently no reason at all?....also the mother of Rose walks around topless around MC all the time which is just plain stupid and makes no sense, story is just way to weird.

MC is a whimp that talks alot but cant back anything up, he is also the standard childish kind with a 12 year old mindset, any girl he meets he find hot and cant stop looking at tits and ass...so yeah boring and stupid, MC is just to nice and never dares to ask about anything, like he hears one girl was hurt by her father and he goes "i wont even ask about it" i mean its boring as fuck.

Dialogs with any girls seems flat and plain, it just to boring.

What is really annoying is how Kinetic it all is, its a sandbox but you got 0 freedom to do what you want, if you want to go with Rose your forced to do Roses mother questline so questlines are tied together removing any free choice, i dont want to touch Donna with a 10ft pole so i have to drop Rose as well which kills the game when you cant pick who you want.

Same for the Sister you cant even go on a route with her without including the mother, i will never understand why you arent allowed to pick who you want a relationship with, i mean what the fuck does the mother has to do with you being with the sister, same for Rose and Donna its idiotic, and this is what destroys the game the most.

They really should add the kinetic tag to warn people that you have no choices and no freedom, even though page one on forum makes it sound like you can pick who you want to be with but in truth you cant.

What really makes it boring is the hole setup with quests and girls and all that, you dont have any choices like when someone tells you, "you can always say no" but you never get an option to say or do anything, you just follow a 100% kinetic story, cant really call it quests either since all you do is click on someone to talk with them and repeat that a million times to gain points with the same scene played over and over, and its get a bit annoying that you have 0 controle, if someone ask you/MC if you like them you dont have a choice to say no since MC loves anything....

Girls look ok but its they arent great in any way.

Animations are short and just around average.

Music is a standard background music like when you ride in an elevator, better then silent but still meh.

In short you need to love everything, young/old/huge tits/small tits and so on to play this game, personaly i hate huge tits and since you cant avoid LIs with that due to questlines tied together the game becomes unplayable for me.

What really blows my mind is how fast you run into "in development" with some LIs i mean game is more then 5 years old and some LIs has no content after level 2, and game is 20gigs i mean really wtf? wheres the content...animaions are even short and just avereage so i really dont get the size of this game.

Pros:
Well there arent really any.

Cons:
Worst story and drawn out game ive ever seen, getting to fuck sister takes ages and your even having a freaking granny forced on you before that happens to, just no.....
Forced sharing if you want to be with a girl.
0 choices in the game, you cant turn down a LI since its 100% kinetic storyline for all LIs, and MC loves eveyone and you have no choice in anything.
Questlines tied together so you cant progress one LI without doing another who you might hate.
Flat and plain boring dialogs.

Characters have the same conversation every event.
Lack of actual sexual content in favor of endless repeats of "Are you sure it's okay to hold your hand/kiss/touch you etc"

Tries to be both a porn game and a novel, fails at both.

*giggles* *smiles* *giggles* *chuckles* (broken English) *giggles* (more broken English) *giggles* *chuckles* *smiles* *giggles* *smiles* (even more broken English) *giggles*
(repeat ad nauseam)

It's not a bad VN, per se. Likable enough characters and the diary keeps the "grind" from being too painful. Old models but I don't really mind that much.

Biggest criticism is, you guessed it, the dialogue. Needs a major revamp. Far too much giggling, smiling, etc. A bit of that sprinkled here and there is fine, but it quickly wears out its welcome when it's literally every other line. (I was beginning to wonder if the mom and sister characters were constantly high or something)

Running it by a native English speaker certainly wouldn't hurt either. Also, tighten up the script in general. "Brevity is the soul of wit" is a famous quote from Shakespeare. Basically, get your point across in as few words as possible. You're not getting paid by the word, so there's no point in using them to excess.

Currently sitting at 3 stars, but it has potential to be higher with a bit of tweaking and polish.

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*giggles*

EDIT: Reading through the discussion thread, it appears that the author has a problem taking constructive criticism, seeing it as a personal insult. Listen, the reason it's given isn't because we think we can do better. It's because we think YOU can. We're pointing out the flaws because we want to see you improve. There's something good that you've managed to create here, but it needs work. Look at it as an opportunity to learn and grow as a writer, instead of getting defensive about it.

- I really liked the idea of diaries.
- I also liked that there were a lot of animations and situations.
- long plot, a lot of text, it’s not for everyone, you can shorten it, although some will like it

This game will take ages to complete, even in its incomplete stage. There is a very high amount of content, but it's padded by an also exorbitant amount of grinding. Not in the sense that it requires repeatedly doing the same tasks again and again to “unlock” content — there is actually near zero need to unlock anything — but that you need to see every variation of every single event from both the mom and sister characters for each time of the day before you can advance the story, and there are multiple events on many time slots. So prepare yourself to spend multiple in-game days just going to the guide to see which events are missing, and then painstakingly watching every single scene. Not every one of those scenes is as interesting as the others, so sometimes you might feel like it would be nice to be able to skip the less critical content.

The dialogs are also painfully repetitive. The characters are all nice and sweet towards each other, and at some point you can't handle reading them say the same love declarations and emotional reassurances again, and again, and again, and again. There is almost zero drama here, just characters getting more and more in love with each other, and the amount of sweetness might give you diabetes.

On the plus side, I’d say that this is a game that does sandbox right: the mode exists to free you to play its truly overwhelming amount of content in the order you decide, and there are helpful tools in the game to tell you what you have and haven’t seen so you’re never really lost.

That said, it's a nice fell-good story for a change, and there are some sexy scenes that make the game worth playing.

There might be a good game hidden inside, but as it is right now it's just a waste of time.

The dialogues are way beyond excessive. 200 clicks for a simple "How are you?" are rather on the lower end.
If there is some interesting story somewhere, then it's covered by a shitload of meaningless back and forth banter.

Talking about excessive? Everyone is constantly apologizing to everyone else for nuffing.
And everyone else insist that an apology for nuffing is not needed which is answered by another apology... Oh boy...

I made it to a point where a NPC did something very outrageous. IRL this NPC would have spend some months in an ICU and then many years in prison. In any other game this NPC would be dead on the spot.
But here? More apologies!

Edith told me I forgot to mention: It gets worse over time. At the beginning it looks rather benign, only slightly annoying. But these mindless dialogues get exponentially longer the farther you "progress".
At some point "War and Peace" seems like a jolly short story...

I absolutely love this game.

The graphics are great, the story is fun, and I very much enjoy the mechanics.

But it’s the slow build that does it for me. No rush into content; you have to work your way there. I think the diary/journal system is a neat touch.

Been following this game for a long time; appreciate all you do, dev!

5/5

- Radical_Dreamer

I'll preface this by saying I really did want to like this game. Wholesome overly romantic true love incest? Sign me up. But the execution of the idea is just too tedious and uninspired


The worst part of the game for me are the characters, they all so boring they have 0 personality traits besides being wholesome and flawless, victims of the world. Combine that with the game having so few events that are not just "you are so perfect i love u :3" type conversations, leads to the game being so boring. (albeit I did not complete all the routes maybe it gets better)
The problem is then exacerbated by there being a LOT of text so you will be spending hours and hours reading the same conversations seeing scenes that are 90% the same.

The logic of the characters is also inconsistent and illogical, for example the MC is constantly prattling off about how a woman is his one and only whilst he's actively pursuing different ones which completely invalidates the weight of his words maybe this could be made into a flaw or something to give the MC any personality and not be the least interesting guy in the planet but instead it's treated like it's not happening and the game is left with 0 conflict.


The poor writing could be more palatable if the game was visually competent but unfortunately the models look on average pretty bad maybe 2-3 out of 10+ look decent


I'm giving 2/5 instead of 1 because the texting, the diary and the corruption-esque changes of the daily events are all pretty decent concepts. But all the good is destroyed by how dull all the characters are and how empty the story is

Sweet Affection [v0.10.1] [Naughty Attic Gaming]
It's not a bad game but it's not a good game either, I don't think it deserves a 3/5.

Let's start by saying that the character models are very mediocre, only Laura, Sidney and the two main female characters are saved.
I almost completely skipped the stories of the characters other than those mentioned, I just read their first events.

The gameplay is very repetitive and you have to do the same things with each increased level of relationship with the main characters, but it didn't bore me so much, all in all I preferred it over a visual novel without gameplay.

One thing I particularly liked was the diary, apart from a few pages that don't explain the event that happened (mainly those of the increase in the relationship) it's perfect (of the two main girls, the rest of the diaries are not the best, we'll see in the future).

From my point of view there are too many useless characters.
As mentioned, I skipped these characters almost completely, they take up development time and weigh down the game (the game is not worth 19+ GB).

This version also lacks webcams, which I liked months ago, too bad.

Despite the vote, I recommend the game to those who want to waste some time and don't have space problems on their PC.

I didn't think I would one day, but come on.
Graphics: Terribly outdated, I hope the next game, the developer uses at least a HS2, or something more current.
Characters: If it wasn't for the mother model, I don't even think I would have played this game, the rest is totally disposable (personal taste, of course).
Gameplay: If you follow the step-by-step included, I don't think it's difficult. Although having to restart a new game (in the past) every version was frustrating.
Story: Well, this is where it all went downhill. It started out great, slow burn (just the way I like it), without rushing anything, or making it too artificial. It was perfect, that's right, "it was".
With each update, it was more of the same, and as much as I like a good story, it started to become monotonous, uninteresting, to the point of becoming boring, and I kept skipping the dialogs. And when you get to the point of speeding up the dialogs, something is not right, it is a sign that the game has lost its essence, lost its magic.
The sex scenes are monotonous, repetitive, too many dialogues during sex. And every sex scene is like the first time, where several things are repeated. I know that this is a romance game, but for the characters to be embarrassed at each sex scene, it is unreal, senseless and very artificial. As much as this is an incest game (which I love so much), with a slow burn... It gets very strange these behaviors.
Anyway, I would give one star for what the game is today. But in respect to the developer, and for what the game was in the past, I will give two stars.
I will still follow the game, but just take a look at the images and animations. I've lost interest in playing.
To the developer: Don't take this personally, this is just an opinion. So don't get discouraged, and keep doing what you like and what makes you happy. I liked the game a lot in the past, but I think that for me, it has become something that I have lost interest in.

Do you like grinding? Good then this game is for you! I've played games where you grind for maybe an hour or so, but this game takes the cake. Don't bother going after multiple people unless you seriously care about everyone and their endless amounts of lore and little to no sexual content for hours on end leaving you softer then when you played.

The MC is probably the biggest pussy there is and is so obvious he's a cuck with how he plays the Nice Guy role the whole damn time. All he says to everyone is how beautiful they are and suddenly the girls are interested in his dull ass. The way he talks is fucking annoying. Take a shot every time he says "honestly" or "to be honest" and I guarantee you'll be in and out of the hospital before this game lets you see any action.

The women in this act dumb as hell. "We can't spend the night in the same bed!", then don't pass out on the MC and suddenly be shocked when it happens! You're suppose to be a mature woman, but act like virgin who can't drink from the same glass from anyone because their lips would touch

There's luckily some characteristic for each woman so they're not so dry, but it's not that much and all them act like damsels in distress and almost all of them become a shy mess like they've never flirted or been flirted with before.

The text in this needs to be better. Bum and tushy is not hot and only makes me think this gonna show some weird ass scenes where the woman says "Would you kindly put it in my tushy, ever so gently" and the MC saying "I'm about to arrive! Was that good for you too?".

I almost forgot, but the dialogue in this is ridiculously long. I chose to skips bits here and there and try to get a gist of everything, but still be stuck on talking about the same small thing that should’ve been glossed over and moved on from. How is it I skip dialogue and still somehow continue where it left off without me reading the several texts I’ve skipped???

The only good thing I'll give this game is the idea behind texting people for pictures, having hints, and that it's still being made and can hopefully improve the drastic things that I've mentioned. Other than that, opening this game makes me feel like closing it again just to not go through another grind session of text and interactions just for the dullest nice guy MC wannabe cuck to get knocked out faster than Mike Tyson's right hook, shit himself, and say "honestly you look cute" to anyone with a vagina and instantly want him.

Simple things to know. Don’t add sexual content at the beginning of the game and don’t wall it off behind 10 hours of dialogue. Find a middle and stop using this nice guy act on EVERYONE. It doesn’t make me want to interact with anyone that could so easily fall for a word just because it’s said "honestly". Use different approaches!!! Why are the women just suddenly trusting or into the MC? "Hey I saw you got laid out by my ex from a single wimpy punch. That was hot and I think I can trust you with protecting me and my daughter from my malicious ex even though we just met. Here’s the key to my apartment". Yes this is the actual start with one of the women and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

The best VN I've ever played personally. Inspired me to start creating my own VN and inspired me to treat my real-life partner with a little bit more affection. Some of the storylines hit pretty deep, I can't describe how much this game has meant to me. Refreshing to see something like this.