Ren'Py - Sweet Affection [v0.11.9] [Naughty Attic Gaming]

I have been kind of playing this since it was originally released as Research into Affection, but seriously have been playing it and all the updates this week. And what I have to say is wow! Just, wow!

First of all, the game is well written and has a great story. Second, it shows a much more realistic depiction of the slow development of complicated relationships between the MC, his Mom, and his sister. The dialogue is well constructed and does a good job of explaining the internal struggles that each of the characters have with how they are feeling and what they are doing.

The content is unbelievable. Not only are there many major events for each level of "affection" that is achieved, there are also a series of spycam images and texts, all of which add nuance and background to the story. I only discovered the gallery by level 6, but I will be going back through the levels and loading everything I missed along the way.

The graphics are ok, but using whatever software the creator is using to animate the sex scenes is resulting in very realistic (for the most part) scenes. I am at the critical juncture of the transition from Level 6 to Level 7 and am eager to see how the many conflicts are resolved. I look forward to future updates.

I seriously cant take it anymore, and i tried and ate so much redundant dialogues. "i just want to have a fun time with my littole Sis, Sis" Oh Cmon! that doesnt even sound well in writeen language, you can not tell me that is normal or a cultural thing. Maybe it is at a drama club, but no serious adult talk like that. I actually searched the rpys and there are so much "honey" alone that i decided not to lose time editing them. At least they could be changed by "love" or "hon" "dear" "handsome", i dont know, something.

Not being able to have custom names makes the "sis" thing beyond annoying, is like a constant bashing to my skull.
Let me tell you, i lived with 3 sisters, if they had dialogues as repetitve as the ones in this game, either i would have killed them, or i would have cut my ears with a chainsaw, for real.

No normal person speaks to a close relative like a salesperson, cause that constant "adressing" is something they teach you for that line of work.

And then we have the issue of the structure of the game,. the game consists in visiting the same places and performing the same clics over and over again to level up until the tier evolves and scenes change, and back again to repeat the same process...
It could be nice if those scenes inside the rooms in the house reflected better the state of the character relationships, and not only the level of "reward".

That thing when you enter a room and it takes 2 renders to find the person inside? It is like your eyes have 50degres of FOV. The rooms are not even that big, and besides a waste of renders i cant find the reason for this.

There is a lot of things like that, things that should be fluid and obvious turned into a specific action with some requirement and a totally disposable line of dialogue.
For instance: "you enter the room, im getting in, you look left" these are 3 pointless clics.
Or in oher contexts "lets pretend this didnt happen" or "lets change the subject, she may get uncomfortable" EVEN WHEN SHE IS LEADING THE CONVERSATION. There are quite a few times where after a couple of lines the subject of the conversation comes back after being changed. Again, pointless lines of dialogue that make the MC manipulative, and quite inconsistent.
The mc seems to be thinking all the time and trying to say the right words.
The game is supposed to be about affection, but the MC is 0 spontaneus, i cant believe he is speaking from his heart. i dont see anything sweet here.

And "independent stories with litle to no crossover"? You need to progress the story of the nother, in order to progress the sister, you cant upgrade their tiers separately.

This novel is a bad experience .What have i done to deserve this? Besides touching my niece and my younger sister?

As someone, who supported the idea of this game and supported the developer till this month, it's kind of sad for me to give this game a 3 star. I'm not going to talk about the character models, HS graphics and story because honestly, they are fairly standard for HS incest games and I didn't feel very strongly about them. I did enjoy the idea of a slow burn and the developing relationship. And now, that is my problem with this game.

I just finished playing 0.7.1 and for the first time since I started playing this game, I had to skip a fair bit of the dialogue for the level 6-7 event and the level 7 events. This is primarily because, through 7 levels of relationship development there has been no change in how the characters interact with the MC and how their conversations play out. Like how are the conversation between the MC and M/S still the same after sex as they were at level one, when neither party was even thinking about a sexual relationship? The MC, for the millionth time, tells S that he finds her pretty etc. and she is still seeking confirmation for it. Like girl, I've been telling you that for 2.5 years now, just accept it.

Similarly, even during the level-up event, there is no change in character dynamics between the M/S and the MC. C'mon, I get the old relationship, but there's got be a change in dynamics after this much "relationship development". Someone in the earlier reviews pointed towards My New Family and I really want to reinforce that: that is how you develop relationship. The character dynamics, interaction and conversation changed almost completely in that game (which is what makes it exciting now) as compared to the start of the game. The dialogue reflect those changes, but in this game, it's essentially just the same dialogues on repeat.

Now, I haven't been active on this forum for a while, but I still took the time to post this average review, not because I hate this game, but because I used to be excited for it at one point and just feel disappointed that despite "content", there just hasn't been any real development in the character interaction. I mean, I've always been a supporter of feel-good games without excess drama, corruption, rape and all that shit, but even I'm starting to lose interest in this game.

Either way, all the best JD and Boom and hopefully you take this a constructive criticism and not hate.

V0.7.1
I haven't been playing this game in a very long time so I decided to restart from the beginning.

Well, to be honest, I'm still at level 1 but already bored and annoyed.
I don't mind slow burning relationships and reading texts when it's done within reason and in an interesting way. Which is not in this game....I didn't remember it to be that way.

I had to skip the dialogues as they were so repetitive and lame. You are literally drown by boring text that seem to be written by a teenager. Too many *giggles-smiles-...." EVERYWHERE and ALL THE TIME!
If I had to make a drinking game out of how many times I read "Don't get me wrong" I would be in an ethyl coma by now.

No real story either just some encounters with girls that seem to be all bullied and saved by this wimpy knight.

I'm not a fan of HS renders, but they do their job,

The game is probably going to be good but barely any "good" stuff get's updated. At least, stuff I think people want. Considering this is based off a game that already had a lot of content, you'd assume you'd want to get back to that point asap but that may just be me.

I can't get over how anti-confident the MC is. The game has a ton of dialogue, and half of it is the MC asking permission to do minor things, or making the girl promise to tell him if she's uncomfortable at all.

To give an example, he actually asks permission to kiss a girl, while they're both naked and she's on top of him, grinding on him. Or he apologizes every time he's caught looking at their breasts like that's some major offense, while they've been deliberately walking around topless around him for days. You can probably call in artillery strikes with less double-checking than this guy uses to kiss a girl.

Basically, the MC acts like the key to romance is asking permission before every separate sexual act, then apologizing afterwards.

So yeah, I agree with a review further down the page: the dialogues seem taken from the mind of a virgin 18 year old beta orbiter.

a good sandbox game.

story? I don't think there is one but a good sandbox game doesn't have to have one.
the UI is Excellent, its easy to play with time and navigate the game, there is a gallery that is always a plus and 3 hint systems!!! but all 3 kinda suck...
the scenes are amazing, lots of facial expressions and verity.
lots of stuff to do, even a bit too much... found myself skipping whole weeks just to fully see weekend only scenes.
lots of characters but they look a bit bland even when they get corrupt.
and so far there is a heavy focus on only 2 of them.
some features are left unexplained (such as searching the rooms and phone messages)

First, I applaud the dev with being timely and professional with their updates and releases. JD is punctual with the release schedule and the communications are always respectful and transparent. That should go a long way for prospective members to support his Patreon. Considering the sheer mass of near-abandoned projects and the scammers who put more energy into their promises than their projects.

As for the game itself, the models are hot (except for the MC) and the the dialog is mostly well written. The background music suits the mood of the story compliments the grind. And speaking of grind, it's perfectly paced IMO, especially considering the fact that cheats are built in if you would rather jump ahead.

The content hits the mark for those like me who enjoy a slow-burn. There is plenty already to prevent being blue-balled. This includes . There are also many side quests that are proving to be spicy.

I have some constructive criticism however:

1. The story and MC have conflicting story arcs. It starts off suggesting the MC's motive is to use his M&S as research to make an incest game, essentially setting you up with a-morale intentions. However, everything after that is an MC who is affectionate and caring, with tons of dialog reflecting conflicting feelings. One minute he is worried about hurting his M&S, the next he is setting up cameras in their bedrooms and bathrooms. It's all just bit contradictory IMO.

2. The dialog could be cut down significantly. Too many repetitive sentiments. Too much inner-dialog. It starts to drag and motivates the player to finger the mouse to death to skip through it. Which isa shame because there is good content hidden within the unnecessary writing.

That's about it though. Great game worth playing and a great dev worth supporting.

So disappointing!

Why do you feel the need to put all the "glances" text in there? Just like you know I'm typing this because you are reading it I know we are glancing somewhere else because I'm looking at something different than I was looking at 1 second ago. Also the "giggles" text can go too I can see on the persons face that they are giggling, chuckling, gasping. Maybe if MC is doing those things you can leave that in, but everyone else just take it out.

Jesus the dialogue in this game is incredibly annoying to read. the amount of repetition and monotony during conversations is mind numbing I find myself skipping through entire conversations because I know they're just riddled with the same compliments over and over again not even reworded or anything just straight up copy pasted. and its not even like there's just a few conversations like this its literally every conversation at every event of every hour its so boring. MC is a cheese factory capable of putting craft singles out business and if I read "if I'm honest," "I'm just being honest," or "ill be honest" one more time I'm going to lose it. if you take the word honest out of the script you'll easily cut it in half. If the devs are reading this go play My New Family and take notes on dialogue.

As far as gameplay goes its fine if you're not at all interested in playing anything. Since I try to be a perfectionist I like the journal so you can make sure you're getting everything done. Don't really understand the point of money in this game since you really only buy inexpensive outfits and cameras that are completely pointless at level 6 I had about $50k and absolutely nothing to spend it on.

The story is pretty much non-existent, everything you read in the game description is all you need to know since literally nothing else ever happens

On a more positive note I like the character models for all the girls especially M and S. MC could use some work but that's not that important. The H scenes I find to be pretty enjoyable even if I don't know how we got to that point cause I skipped all the dialogue to get there.

Don't know if ill continue playing the game in the future especially if I have to suffer through this dialogue but we'll see. This game has a ton of potential but the dialogue from start to finish essentially need a complete overhaul, everything else is minor.

I'm a game dev myself, so I'll *try* to be as non-moron as possible...

Well... it's the first time in my gamer life that I've skipped dialogue like crazy. That pretty sums up my impressions with the game.

That, and the fact that it has some interesting touches I can *see* as a fellow dev. Those details like the diaries scripted text being actually a different font for each girl.

But... again, the dialogues seem taken from the mind of a virgin 18 year old beta orbiter. Seriously. That bad.

And by no means I consider myself a professional writer. Hell no. But when you're reading for the hundredth time "Do you really think I'm pretty?!" or "I only want to spend time with you", I can't do other thing that opening AutoClicker.exe and spare me the misery until the next milestone actually happens.

As for the content amount... again, I know how hard it is to make games by yourself, but I think it's a bit underwhelming considering this game was already in production when I was still doing my previous game. I don't have experience with posing Honey Select models, and I also don't know if this dev is making enough money to make this project his full-time job, but still...

Anyway, it's by no means a disaster of a game. The models are pretty, the gradual corruption is adequate, and there is attention to detail from a game design PoV.

If only the dialogue was like... three times less redundant. :-/

(Reviewed version 0.6.12)

You are a young man, living with your affection-starved single mom, and your innocent-but-discovering-her-sexuality sister (there are other characters but they're peripheral and 95% of game time is spent on this main pair). Each character has an hourly schedule in the open world offering opportunities to interact with them in different settings, gaining or losing affection points and pushing the plot forward.

At first it's a promising game. Utterly derivative, but the characters are well defined, the mechanics cleanly presented and the graphics on the better-than-average end of the Honey Select spectrum.

And then the grind sets in, and you watch minor variations of the same set of H scenes over and over again with different words on top, crawling through the molasses of the plot, dragging yourself through pages of dialog that you click through faster and faster until you inevitably enable "skip unseen dialog", just so the next corruption level might reward you with 10% more tits.

Pros
+ It's well designed.
+ It has oyakodon fantasy, which is well presented.
+ Good images
+ Easy to play
+ Easy to get money
+ Cosplay things
Con(s)
- It doesn't have much content yet (But has potential)

Ok, so, I've had a lot of fun with this game at the beggining, but for the last couple of levels things have just not really made much sense with the way the characters interact with one another.

I really like what this game is going for, with the slow and restrained aproach to corruption which looks a lot more realistic than other incest stories where both parties just immediately give in and from that point onward they just fuck. It makes sense that it would feel unconfortable, and wonky, and that the characters would be constantly worried about where each other's boundaries are, and that's great. But I'm afraid the game is just not well written enough to support it, and instead of comming across as realistic and emotionally engaging, it is just completely overbearing.

We get it, the mother has never felt loved in the past, so she needs to be constantly reasured. It's a good character arc to have that character slowly ease into the mentality that she is loved, beautiful and hot but...she has to progress. She can't keep being shocked, in the exact same way, every single time. I've lost count of how many times she has said "No one has ever said that to me", and that's not a line that works multiple times. Someone has said that to her. We have. Multiple times in that day alone. Other similar lines are also repeated constantly. Most damming of which, altough not exactly a line, is "chuckles" or "giggles". Whenever characters aren't completely freaking out about stepping over a boundary, they're giggling in every other line of dialogue. No one talks like that.

Sister is even worse, because though she suffers from all the same problems, her's are never justified in the story. She didn't have to settle with a guy she didn't love and raise two kids. She hasn't spent years alone, longing for love. Her need for reasurance is only slightly explained by her body image issues, which are once again, not well written enough to come out as endearing. She doesn't like her breasts because...reasons. And her dislike for them isn't reflected in how she dresses, nor does she feel self conscious around her own topless mother no, she only dislikes them when the mc says he likes them, and then she finds thousands of reasons why they're bad. Because then the MC can be "sweet" again.

"Hot scenes" being interrupted in that way are the rule in the whole game. Every intimate moment is interrupted by the characters shifting their focus to something that happened off screen, years ago. That's actually a great way to paint the image that these characters are not very confortable with the situation they're in, and are trying to ground themselves. It would be good writing, if it wasn't once again overused to shreds. Eventually they have to be comfortable with one another. Their relationship dynamic has already been well estabilished enough that we don't need these moments for it.

The story is good. It really is, it's a lot more engaging than the mindless fuckfiesta of games like Corruption. But the writing is abysmal, miles below other games with the same approach, like Dating my daughter, Freeloading family, Summertime saga, etc.

And once you start getting bored of the repetition and start skiping nearly every line of dialogue you're left with nothing. The art isn't good, and there is barely any gameplay. Those two things wouldn't matter if the game was well written, but since it isn't, the game wasn't an enjoyable experience.

Had to adjust my rating here not because any of the stuff below has changed but because the dev continues to embed his animations in a way that is infuriating. Most games use short animations interspersed with still images for sex scenes so the player has some control of how quickly or slowly the scene progresses and this adds some space for the dev to add sexy talk. This game continues to embed a single large video that ends as soon as you hit enter. It's frankly inexcusable and ruins most of the sex scenes.

Still a nice game for people more concerned with romance and slow burn and less concerned about the actual sex scenes

Really enjoy this game. Nice tight focus on the three main characters. The corruption does move slowly but that's what the game is trying to do and the gameplay is not complicated or difficult. You know what to do each level/week. Journal entries being tied to the events each corruption level is a nice little touch. Mom and sis are really nice looking models and the H scenes are pretty good.
Good time to get on board with this game as the corruption is just starting to get good. Play if you like a slow burn incest corruption game that is starting to really burn. Avoid if you are looking to quickly turn your family into sluts.

Oh my god this game is boring. Nine gig download and the game is just a complete boring grind fest. What is there to hold interest in this game, there is very little story and not a lot in the game at all. Just get affection points and click through the hours trying to follow a book of certain things your supposed to do to get a corruption level, as for the any sex scenes, they last for about 1 second, sticks it in 1 bam immediately goes to the finish. BORING, there are many games that are far superior and actually have a story to it. Graphics and animations are amateur and download size is huge, Not worth the download.

The best game i have ever played on this site! I am thankful that the dev really take their time to flesh out the story instead of instantly delivering on lewds. If you are a fan of good/long stories I greatly recommend this game.

If you're into the slow-burn incremental corruption games, this one is it.

A lot of corruption games get it wrong by gating content behind incredibly long grinds with no payoff along the way. (Alice Awakening, Bad Brother Saga as two examples.) This game is that concept done right. Its taken a long time to get to this point, in fact I'm pretty sure at one point it was even labeled Abandoned but the game we have now is great.

The animations are good and the dialogue is pretty impressive, theres the occasional typo but its easy to forgive considering the sheer volume of it all.

The gameplay is repetitive, but surprisingly its to the games benefit. Everyday has the same schedule with activities the girls do around the house, but the more you play the further the characters descend into voyeurism. With a unique scene for each stage of the day for every corruption level, its exciting when you go to see how a particular activity has evolved each levelup.

I just can't express how jam packed full of content this game is. Even the early scenes before any major corruption is great. It's back to back erotic scene after erotic scene and I can't recommend it enough.

This game could be good but instead it's fucking terrible to get that patreon money.
Get ready to do the exact same thing over and over and over. Your reward is getting to eat out or finger one of the girls lmao. "Wow, your "special place" smells and taste like heaven." No dude has ever said this and if they did they were fucking lying. "MC I love you with all my heart!" "No, I love you with all my heart!" Fuck off.
MC and girl will masturbate together then be shy about kissing with tongue.
This game was written by a 16 year old or someone who has never had sex.
I tried my best but after a few weeks in the game I couldn't take it anymore.

The game is just so repetitive.
And i dont even mean in a grindy see the same scene way.
Because the lvling system with affection fill to max, before you've seen all the scenes each lvl.
The issue is that EVERY SINGLE INTERACTION is the same, with just different text.
Its just the MC telling how much he adores his mom/sis, how they are afraid to be direct with each other, and the same "teasing" every time.
There is just SO much text, of the SAME discussion over and over, that if not for the checkbox system on scenes already scene, you wouldn't know if you actually are having a fresh scene or the same discussion you've already had 100 times.
There is so much droning on and on with crap loads of text.

Renders, scenes and expressions are good.
But having the same interaction with different words over and over just gets super boring after a while.
And there is soooo much text also.
If the text at least where engaging its fine, but its not.
Its just draged out to the max about the same topic and discussion each time.

Every single scene have the same setup:
Mc enters area, and 9/10 the mom/sis is in a state of undress or touching them self's.
MC stares, and then the interaction about how much he loves their bodies start, and how that makes him/them feel.
But it doesn't end there, it just keeps going on and on and on and on and on about the same thing,
Then one of them is afraid they stepped over a line, so they say they are sorry.
MC/Mom/sis says its okay, and all is well, then one of them is afraid of asking if they can be naughty with the other person.
But its always okay, so the naughty part proceeds.


This IS EVERY scene.

Also calling this game corruption is a huge stretch tbh, cos there really is no corruption.
And there is no real story to this game either.
Because of the way the scene system works, 7/10 the sis/mom/mc will mention something in one scene, that you have not actually seen yet.
So there is no red line trough the game, a lot get super confusing.

I really wanted to like Research into affection more than I ended up doing so, but at the very least, I know what it is that caused me to dislike it, and it's possible that you may feel differently.

The characters are interesting, if not a little one-dimensional. The two main love interests, the mother and sister of the main character, are all that I will discuss here, as thus far only one other girl is able to be raised beyond level one. The renders are fine, and the poses and camera placement are pretty good for a honey select title.

The sister is fun-loving and likes pranks. The mother is really nervous about having an inappropriate relationship with her son. Both of them love the Main Character, in a familial way to begin with, and eventually more romantically. (Which basically means that eventually they will get over you walking in on them in the toilet and don't immediately tell you to get out.)

The game interface is mostly clear. A menu bar has some shortcuts and access to the diary, and the primary interface is just clicking on a location where a girl is having an activity too join them or talk with them.

The implication that you will need to balance time on working on your patreon and seducing your family is interesting, but misleading. The only uses for your funds is buying outfits, going on dates, and installing spy cameras, but the cameras are optional, (and mostly pointless) and the dates and buying outfits are just momentary hurdles to progression.

PROS

The diary system as a checklist has promise -

The diary entries were interesting, and after each scene was viewed for the first time, the inner thoughts of your mother or sister would be conveniently written out for you to find in their journals. These were occasionally interesting, but almost never surprising, as they only wrote about the scene you just had, and mostly along the lines of "OMG, you will never believe what we just did..."

The graphics are pretty good -

Hey, look. Animations. And they don't totally suck. The videos of most of the lewd acts are fine, once you get to them, and better than the still frames that a lot of lewd games favor.

CONS

This game is repetitive -

To progress in the game, you will need to grind out stats with your mom and sister to make them affectionate towards you. 5% affection per act (with a few exceptions) means that it will take about 20 actions to get them to 100% which unlocks the ability to buy them a dress and take them out on the weekend. Some activities get progress for both of them, but mostly, that will be 20 acts per girl. (You can fast forward through content you have seen as per usual renpy rules.) After you go on a date, which required you to max out their affection, you are frequently rewarded with a large bunch of affection, which is all lost. Then, after you take each on a date, the three of you watch a movie together, and you reset to 0 affection at the next level. This just seems asinine from a game perspective. Spend time to make them love you, date them for a reward that is useless, and then remove ALL progress for the next arbitrary hurdle.

This game is repetitive -

That same diary system that tells you which scenes you have seen, can be used to find the scenes you miss. If you decide that you want to see them all and have them checked off in the diary, you will need to progress through around three game weeks for every week of story progression. So every week of new scenes, takes about a month in game. Every day activities like going to school and going to work can have all the content viewed in 2 days. but for the weekend, 8 activities will be packed into the 10 o'clock slot. (to be fair, only 4 activities count in the diary) But on top of the optional morning activities, 2 extra options are required for progression. 6 of them are either barging in, peeping, or knocking to get a scene. A few other weekend scenes will change, but they can mostly be viewed in only a single weekend. What this means is that in order to fill out the diary that the game keeps like a checklist, you will go through one game week and see the vast majority of available scenes in about 2 game days. Another 4 game days will let you unlock the diary options for the morning routine. (you can barge in, peek or knock while mom and sis are in the bathroom or shower) But because the weekend 10 am slot has those same peek-open-knock options, as well as an option to invite out on a date that evening at 5, and you can only do two actions out of 8 each week. What this means is, with less than 1% new content after the first week, each game level will take you about a month of gameplay to not skip a scene.

This game is repetitive -

Not only will you see many scenes repeatedly, but all the scenes blend together into a banal conversation "Tell me what you want." "I want to go slow." "OK, we will progress slowly." for the entirety of gameplay. While the sex acts and lewd scenes do progress, there is no variety to the conversation they will have about what they are doing. The MC tells mom he loves her tits early and keeps telling her in every scene where she is topless. He tells you that he can't believe how comfortable his mom and sister are getting with him every time either shows him anything. He tells his sister he will get even for her latest teasing every time she opens her mouth. The fact that EVERY sex act you had to grind to unlock is met with at least FOUR scenes with dialogue like
Her:"You know that thing we did before? I liked that"
You: "We can do that again"
removes any interest that a hot steamy scene could possibly have. And while I could have complained about the writing here instead of making the repetitive joke, the fact that SO much of the conversations sound like they were copy-pasted from conversations that you JUST had is really a crime.

The game is really fond of making you repeat scenes you had watched before, making you repeat every conversation you have at least four times, and making you repeat all of the things you just did with one of your family members with the other one. I could complain more, but I feel I would just be repeating myself.