Ren'Py - Abandoned - Sylphine [v.024] [Glacerose]

this game gets a full redesign for character and game world every update. updates are not met. this game is just becoming a patreon milking cow that will go nowhere. i now get why his first game got abandoned.

One of my fav games.
+ beautiful girls
+ big world
+ interesting story
+ high animations
+ different wallpapers on PC
+ gallery

- combat system
- music
This game has a lot of potential.

Good: Girls models are beautiful, story is semi interesting, setting is cool, and the renders are amazing

The Bad: Other than Alex and Lillian, the girls are either mentally handicapped are so stupid as to not know how to turn off do not disturb mode on their phone, and pink haired girl is just plain annoying, Tsundere mode trope taken too far.

The ugly: hate the free roam sections in this, provide useless time sinks with 0 reason for being in the game other than extra systems that are unecessary and poorly implemented.

Overall: would like a VN mode to make the story flow better, and have greater cohesion and a rewrite of some of the stupid characters, I almost feel bad flirting with them as they are clearly mentally disabled and it feels like I'm taking advantage of them.

Review for v.024:

Good:
-Renders
-Animations
-Models

Horrible:

-Music: Overly Girly and Cringe-worthy
-Story: Conversations, particularly with Lillian and Serra, are painfully awkward and cringeworthy. These dialogues are so uncomfortable that I find myself consistently skipping them due to their unbearable nature.


Final thoughts:

Despite the obvious hard work that's gone into making this game, my rating stays held back by one big issue - the dialogue is just not up to par. Let's face it, cool visuals and animations alone aren't enough to make a game praiseworthy.

Version 0.024
Beautiful looking game with promising story. This project is VERY ambitious, and I'm somewhat concerned that it may not reach the finish line.

[Story]- There is very little story content at the moment. It is pretty much still at the introduction stage. Each girl has her own storyline separated from the main questline. The story has a very novel like quality, with each scene being quite descriptive. It is a little too verbose at times, as the text unnecessarily describes what is already shown in the picture(and the pictures do a great job on their own). Each story is quite engaging, and quite clear and leaves no room for confusion.

I found the characters to be quite unique. I usually don't favor any girl and like them based on looks. With this game, the (main) girls all have some personality, and the way you interact with them also differs. I find myself leaning towards certain characters while some were less appealing. However, some of the personalities are a bit over-the-top.

Class selection was a little disappointing. BM got a falcon. An old, powerful Falcon, but I was expecting something cute or fantastic, like a Rapidash or some #$%^(even Gracie got a wolf). Hybrid(Entity) looked straight up gay, I really did not enjoy the look. Probably could be better if his wings were more stylish/sleek. Weaponmaster got a sword. It's an AoE broadsword, which is kind of cool, but I was expecting a weapon with more flair. Sorcerer didn't have much in the looks department, but you get all elements, which is the best deal out of the 4 classes(cool factor wise). It is hinted that class selection will determine what girls you can have, and other story factors, which adds some replayability. That depends on how good the gameplay is, but at this point, I have a feeling that it will be good.

[Gameplay]- This game has a very well done free roam system. Each girl's next objective is clearly outlined as well as their schedule for the day, so you're never left to wonder how to accomplish your goals. With the unique duo world system, it also lets you switch your world as well as their world, which makes what otherwise would be a contorted and hard game mechanic very simple and easy. With this game, I didn't feel any pressure or need to get to the next goal, because the quest system allows you to leisurely explore or plan your week.

Throughout the day, you can find and hang out with another character or advance a storyline. Hanging out raises relationship level, which doesn't do anything at the moment, but you can get some nice scenes (with the main girls) when you do them. Each (main) girl's story unlocks new places and people, which in turn (will) add new storylines.

Navigation is very smooth. Although the background shows you the places it links to, you can not move to another area by clicking on it at the moment. All movement is done via a quick move overlay, and all available options appear on it. While it does seem like waste of the background, I have come to like it, as it may make the background confusing if there's too much to click on.

The combat system is very bare bones. There are currently 3 enemies and solo only. It is intended for party play, and looks like it will be a good turn based RPG in the future. There are some ending scenes, similar to Monster Quest. You can get these scenes by losing AND winning.

[Scenes]- This is done in DAZ, and both the characters AND background look realistic and AMAZIN. There's some flavor sound mixed in with the music, such as crowd sounds in a tavern. There's a variety of body shapes, but they all look FANTASTIC. The scenes are animated, and usually have 2 different angles, but some of the angles are a bit odd. Even the "sped up" animation is also kind of slow, but the scenes look beautiful. There's no wonky legs or body parts jutting out of other body parts. Overall, very smooth and realistic.

The text was clear and nice to look at. The menus were also spruced up and look beautiful.

[Bugs]- Everything worked so well that I did not notice any defects.

This game looks absolutely amazing, and is a lot of fun! There is a fair bit of content here already, and it's quite solid. It is very lighthearted and makes no attempt at any realism, but if you looked at this game and expected anything else you have only yourself to blame. The characters introduced so far are great, I especially like Lillian. My one concern is that the game seems to be setting up a number of characters outside the MC's home. He already lives with 5 gorgeous women, why do we need more? I fear that this will lead to fewer scenes with the already established girls in upcoming updates, as time is spent on the new ones. That might just be me though, a lot of people seem to think that more girls=more better. I might be in the minority on this and the dev might just be giving people what they want. Either way, I highly recommend giving this game a go!

Game is good. Fun characters, good renders, not grindy, excited for what's to come. There seems to be some branching, but the major branches haven't yet really been explored. If you're into fairly linear sandbox games where you get to interact with a variety of cute girls, this is a good choice.

Review of v0.24...

First off I want to say this game is absolutely beautiful. However I think it's a bit too ambitious. I'll get into this later.

The characters were a little hit or miss for me. Another reviewer said they all seem more like stereotyped caricatures than people, and I would have to agree with that.

Alex - The caretaker for the group. She seemed the most real to me. She didn't seem to be stereotyped in anyway outside of being a loving parental figure. I gravitated to her most of all.

Lillian - The extremely lazy gamer girl. You would think she was suffering from severe depression with how lazy she is. I did like her shitlord attitude though.

Gracie - The super happy tree hugger. She's always happy and bubbly all the time and always elongates her words. It was a bit annoying at times.

Celeste - The tsundre. I'll never understand what some people get out of constantly being verbally abused.

Serra - The bookworm. She acts like she has a borderline mental disorder who you then later find out is an extreme pervert. I didn't really hate Serra, but the way she talked got old fast.

I like the concept of the story. Finding out you have magical abilities and being able to transport to a magical dimension. When it was the MC's turn to chose a guild I chose weaponmaster, because I thought it would be cool to be able to enchant guns like the MC's mother showed him early on. Celeste also chose weaponmaster and transformed with a hand gun so I was looking forward to it. Unfortunantly when the MC transformed he had a suit of armor and sword. I was disappointed.

Each girl has a relationship stat that you need to grind out which I'm not sure does much of anything (at least right now) since each girl also has a story thread which doesn't seem to be affected by it.

The sandbox concept didn't really bother me. I've seen it done far worse. The character screen gives you ideas of what you need to do next with each girl which is a nice feature.

Like I said earlier I think this game is a little too ambitious. When I finished the current build there were probably 15 girls unlocked, each with their own relationship stat, and probably 8 more slots still to be used. Judging from how far the main story went I'm guessing the game is still fairly early in it's development.

I've seen a few other reviewers say it had been a year before this last update. That concerns me for the future of the game. Massive project with long periods before updates worries me that the dev might abandon the game. I hope not. I would really like to see where it goes as a whole.

The dev of doing way too much with this game.

Whether it’s the story being all over the place or the Character design. The Dev doesn’t seem to know what he/she wants anymore.

A sandbox story with two-dimensions, a bunch of characters it’s just too much for my taste. I was a fan early on, but now that I’m used to the characters the Dev decides to nerf them, this was a waste of my time to be honest.

The mechanics is annoying to me, for instance to move around to have to keep toggling the the navigation button otherwise you’re stuck in the room. As if sandbox’s aren’t trying enough.

And moving on.

This is definitely a good game with an interesting story. It has many interesting events and great characters. The characters have a unique characteristic that is defining them and a personality to suit giving a good emersion in the game. In addition non of the girls are fully bound and you can pursue all of them.

My only concern for the game is that it may become too elaborate resulting a longer realises or for it to become abandoned. However, this variety of options and actions you can take makes this an enjoyable experience.

v0.24

I REALLY, really don't want to be that guy. I know it probably has a lot to do with the virus and everything, but I mean, it's been a year. and in a year, the entirety of the story update is

15 new main story events

3 new Celeste Events

2 new Serra Events

2 new Alex events

2 new Gracie events

2 new Lillian events

And that's it. And most of the story events are literally copy pastas. You get 4 classes, and they're all just minutely edited versions of themselves, and the same thing goes for the introductions to the guild.

You didn't even NEED to release

10+ new locations

10+ new side characters because you literally can't do anything with any of them.

It was added for the sake of being added. You'd already waited a year for an update, I don't see why you just didn't wait till you could actually... you know, interact with the new characters to push the new update. Then you uploaded it to steam with a $10 price tag for a game that barely has 3 hours of content. The level up system was absolutely useless in this update because you can't even do anything with the money you earn lmao. I'm sitting on like $500 just because I wanted to grind to level 10 to see if it even did anything. EVERYTHING you dropped in this update besides the character stories was irrelevant. It was the most incomplete update I've downloaded from any game yet.

I know this is probably the most brutal feedback you've gotten yet, but dude... I've waited a year for this.

Not to mention... Celeste's latest event was just out there. We said she's cute and all of a sudden she's taking nudes of herself, PRINTING THEM OUT and leaving them on our table for the public to see if anyone decided to go into our bedrooms.

I had a random urge to see how far this game had come since I last played it, and backed up my saves from my phone to my computer and downloaded it, and I can't believe how disappointed I was. The only reason I'm even this upset is because like, the base of the game was so promising. Serra, Alex and Lillian were such adorable characters, the story seemed so great, and then.. this just flopped. I hope you don't take this too harshly, because I can't imagine how much time you put into all this. I just wish you would have prioritized other things than a female orc and rebel fae riding us in reverse cowboy.

For its potential I give it a 4/5

but for what you prioritized and dropped I have to give it a 1/5.

This physically hurt me to type out.

Version played 0.22 btw

If this game continues its current level of quality in all aspects (renders, storytelling, scripting, pacing) then it will be one of the best porn games ever made, let alone just "one of the best on this site"

Part of the holy trinity of quality, (Sylphine, Panacea, Healslut), this game is clearly the base for a project that will end up lightyears ahead of the competition.

As of current update, the story is a bit fractured (due to the way that updates on this site work, devs are incentivised to realise sections of WIP rather than completed stories. Usually I Would remove a star from a rating, but you can tell from what you do get to see that the story isn't an afterthought, so I don't remove the star in this case)

Dev, if you're reading this: for the love of god let me sub to celeste & her toes

It's a crime this isn't rated higher. I mean it's not rated poorly but when sorting games by ranking on this site it's only at the top of page 4. That means it's barely in the top 100 games on the site. I've played hundreds of these games (mostly the top rated ones as I'm fussy) and this is the second best in my opinion.

Visually it's stunning in terms of the render quality and attractiveness of the heroines.

The writing department may be even more impressive though. Each characters has a very distinctive and engaging personality which makes getting to know them so much fun. There's five main heroines and honestly picking a favorite is so hard. Usually in a game I have a clear preference or two so the consistency here is admirable.

Sticking with the subject of writing, the actual plot is shaping up to be something special. Fantasy works are amongst the most challenging as there's so much world building to do (if you wanna do things right).

Glacerose hasn't taken any shortcuts here and is starting to excel. There's a very solid and intriguing foundation in place now with some backstory and the establishment of the guilds (plus the powers you get with each).

Honestly the scale of the project is astounding. There are five heroines and then a double digit amount of side heroines. Creating content for them all whilst progressing the fantasy plot will be challenging but he seems to have the work ethic and talent to make it work. Really the passion and ambition must be commended.

The productivity has been encouraging so far. The recent big update took a long time but it was massive and very high quality. This game has been out around 11 months so if you consider how much content there is it's actually very impressive, especially considering the standard.

I don't think the dev was working full time on the project for all of those 11 months either and plenty of time was spent learning the required skills so again I must praise how productive he's been.

The only minor critique I have is that there wasn't really any relationship progression. What I mean is that the build-up was lacking, the MC and the girls didn't slowly started to fall for one another. Instead they all pretty much loved him from the start. Granted that's because they've known him since childhood but it still meant that I couldn't experience a gradual romance being developed.

Maybe I'm in the minority but I like slow-burn romances as they more closely match real life. I can't be too critical here because it's a balancing act. If you're too slow progressing things many will be impatient and complain. It is a game after all so things aren't like real life, especially in this genre which so heavily aims to fulfill raw, sexual desire.

Overall though an exceptional dev and game. If things continue at this standard massive success is only a matter of time.

Excellent game! Fun and super entertaining, especially considering how big the world is, its massive actually. Glacerose, you've made a great game. Hopefully in the future we'll be seeing this game on steam

Edit: it's actually already on steam... or about to be on steam. Congratz man, i'll make sure to get my copy on May 28th

Storyline and renders are amazing. All the girls are amazing, but Alex takes the top spot for me. Hoping to see more exciting content in the near future. Can't wait to further explore deeper into the fantasy world to meet the different characters within as well.

The first time I saw/played this game was the last update. I think it is fantastic, I love Celeste, she is beautiful, also games on this site rarely make me laugh, or have humor, but some of the interactions and facial expressions had me LOL. Not many games bring feelings of emotion while playing but this one has, one example is that I didn't want to allow the girls (mainly Celeste) to start living in the other world because I didn't want to give up the interactions with them. Thank you for this, the art, the humor and story are great, and so is Celeste..

I went into this attracted by the renders, that look beautiful. 10/10, no doubt.
The main story is pretty interesting too, magic stuff, guilds and whatnot, decent side characters, all above standard.

Why not give it 5 stars? The four main girls. Look, I love when characters have flaws, it gives them realism. But when the flaw becomes the whole character? Something is wrong.
One of the girls is an angry tsundere with no redeeming traits. Everything she says is confrontational and dishonest.
The second one is a literal child. Extremely naive, and nothing more.
The third seems almost autistic. I end up feeling weird interacting with her.
The fourth is probably the most "normal". Just a mix of depression, lazyness, nihilism, random trash talking and modern sex work. All of that are terrible traits in my opinion, but at least she has multiple traits.

I ended up half skipping most of the side stuff about the girls, and they're the reason this isn't a 5 star game for me.

review based on 0.022 version
PRO:
- cg
- good animations
- not bad story
- hints buildin ig
CONS:
- not big flaw, but game have tags "vaginal"/"anal", but there so such content, pair tag related scenes only in "wet teenager dreams"
- introduced too many characters with almost zero content (in current version zero content for magic world)

my real current rating is 4.3 only cuz lack of content and many introduced characters wo/ content.

Really like this one so far. Good models, decent story so far with decent writing, not too grindy. Looking forward to more lewd scenes with ALL the girls that live with you and definitely some of the new girls too! One of the better games on this site currently.

First I wanna thank the developer of the game,
For this masterpiece, to be honest played many games just in my Android most of them not all are good but they lake of something..I downloaded this game yesterday in my phone,just curious if it's good or bad,coz I have low end phone..and 80% of the games I downloaded I deleted after because they have strong requirements to play it or there's no Android version just unofficial version...but your game surprised me..she Soo smooth in my phone(2gb ram, 16gb storage) also design and grafique amazing I can't lay down my eyes in every little thing from animation to character to ECT.....I really thank you for job if am rich I will donate for you sorry I just have a phone I write now it's 3am in bed coz game can't let me sleep..I hope there guys like you who take responsibility of majority of people who have a weak devices who wanna try play good games not important if adult or not.....
For record I play holidays island she has same size about 1gb and strong grafique but make my phone crush..and your game more than good she surpasse holidays island in every things no offend of the creator of the holidays island but ,sylphine beat that..in total:
*Script: 6/10
*Grafique: 8/10
*Animation :9/10
*Smoothness: 9/10
**Atmosphere: 10/10
***Low end phone support majority: 10+