VN - Ren'Py - Taboo University [BookTwo v1.3.07] [ViNovella Games]

TL; DR
Good game with excellent visuals and few very frustrating game design choices.

Visuals quality can be viewed on the screens, all I can add, animations are superb. They have perfect loop and physics.
Plot is decent as for a porn AVN, writing is good, steamy when needed, heart warming when appropriate.
For the negative part.

Gameplay-wise it was supposed to be your typical harem power fantazy.
MC with big dick and a body of a greek god lazily screws everyone who's moving and have a pulse.
While player was supposed to choose if he wants for MC to screw this character, and if yes should this character special kink be apllied to the scene, or more vanilla variation should be played.
Nothing complicated right?
What we have in the game instead:
MC needs to investigate 3 missing girls (explained in first 5 minutes, not a spoiler).
Each investigation includes interacting with different character related to the missing girl.
Each investigation has 3 'stages'.
The higher the stage - the more plot is revealed and more steamy scenes become.
So you 'investigate' stage 1 for the group of girl #1, in the process make you choices who and how to interact with and so on.
After that let's say you do the same for groups 2 and 3.
BUT
For some reason, developers in their infinite wisdom, decided to put artificial limitation here.
As soon as you reach and complete 'stage3' for 2 out of 3 groups, the group that is left becomes locked out.
Why?
So that you would start a new playthrough, and instead of choosing groups 1 and 2, would choose 2 and 3.
And then had to hold CTRL button for 10 minutes to skip to the needed part, as there's no warning of this wonderful game design choice!
Alternatively you can download the mod linked here, but why would the devs put this limitation in the first place is beyond me.

Additionally if you're a pure innocent vanilla soul, you might be disturbed with the scenes of blood (looks like a red paint, but stiil), and, already mentioned in the previous review discovery that the girl you were making out with has a dick shaped surprize for you.

Nevertheless, visually game is 5/5, and if you happen to not have my nitpicks with it, it could easily be one of your favourites on this site.

EDIT
Starting from the "Book2" devs actually decided to start adding sorta Taboo content. Well, not really 'Taboo' per se, but some kinky stuff is defenitely there.
In book1 90% of content is MC getting HJ, BJ and regular vanilla sex with some dirty talking,

First review ever so forgive if I'm rambling a bit. Game's kinda hot garbo imo and I would've rated it a 2/5 if not for the great animations & certain characters that're likeable, unlike a lot of the others... mainly the cult path weirdos. (Nia is okay, Lumi is good, everyone else is weird af tho.)

Sometimes the music is fine or even good and other times it's so repetitive it's headache inducing, I was wondering if it was AI generated lol.

There's a lot of choices you're not really allowed to make whether that be a story beat or a sex scene;
Oddly you're forced to only play 2 of the 3 routes at a time without a mod, because it's leading into a throuple. Given that the char is an undercover cop, limiting himself seems dumb? Follow all viable leads lol. I think letting players play all 3 and then having them choose which of the people you'd want a throuple with makes more sense instead of railroading you into it.

If you want to have sex sounds, you're forced to hear male moaning, no option to turn it off.

You're forced to have a relationship with a woman who is 20 years older than the MC, the MC meets her when he's like 18 I'm pretty sure as well? it feels like grooming (ironic nitpick considering a lot of the games on f95 but if you want to be taken more seriously, then don't do shit like that lol)
as in there's no like, romancing the "older professional woman" and showing her you're "mature" or smth, the way the cliche goes. It's just 0-100 in your flashbacks

You're forced to makeout with a trans woman multiple times (no offense intended here, I just don't want to) Also if you dislike NTR yet like Delphia, Delphia is like constantly making out with the same trans woman. they might've implied they fucked as well, I can't remember. It's not technically NTR tho, you're not in a relationship... and it's a sex cult, so. still sucks tho.

You're forced to take drugs that you have no idea what they are, no idea what they could do to you, but the game implies you have a choice here with 2 options. (you don't.)

You're forced to have an orgy with a pregnant woman then your character goes on to fuck the cult leader woman which sucks because I hate her lmao.

You're... sort of, half forced? to watch a dude get pegged. While they give you the choice to "look away" i.e. not see it, the MC is standing like 6 feet from them and stares at a wall during the act. it skips over it but it doesn't erase that it just happened 6 feet from you.... I might add, in context you're also a captive in that scene... You were kidnapped, and then the leader woman comes in to fuck a dude in the ass wtf? You could've just asked if you want to see it and if you say no have her tell him to fuck off

General grossout shit during the cult path, lots of blood, most of it coming from pigs I think? No option or anything to look away at least warn me they're gonna splash pig blood all over a pregnant woman mid climax.

Being on the cult path I feel awkward trying to interact with any of the people there because they're actually insane? I
the dev also has a tattoo fetish in this path and it kinda grossed me out a lil (which is very ironic when I love tattoos on chars.)

random nitpick: Morgan is introduced as a bit of a brute trying to intimidate Zemfira yet somehow ironically is the sweetest character in the game later on, even towards Zemfira (who is also almost a higher-up in the org they're a part of)? It almost doesn't even fit her character later on in the game lol

Maybe I expected too much from a game with "taboo" in the title so admittedly a lot of this is subjective, and I think Zemfira's route is actually fairly well written, relatively. Silvia's route is okay so far, I just didn't like the forced to take drugs that harm you 20 mins later. Cult route, I do not like.

There's definitely positives, though. The characters are super attractive. Animations are great, good art style. Some characters are pretty charming, I particularly liked Morgan(& her sister), Zemfira, Lara, and Olesna. I'd like Delphia too if not for her weird blood fetish/rituals

All in all, a game that might have an interesting story with some interesting characters buried beneath some forced fetish content.

Zemfira's route is like a 4/5 (probably a 5/5 with more Morgan she reminds me of Karlach, goated. Also not forcing me to be in the room during the pegging lmao), Silvia's 3/5, Silvia and Lara's side story 4/5 , Nia's 1/5.

Story: 8/10
Renders: 10/10
Animation: 10/10
Sound: 8/10
Characters: 9/10

Another amazing game by this dev; the story in this one is better than his previous game, and the Visuals and Animations are really good. Also, I think it would have been better if the dev had made the Futa/trans content optional like in his previous game; not everyone is into it. Other than that, I think it's pretty high-quality game and worth playing

I'm loving this game's story of a detective infiltrating three different sketchy clubs in a university. The graphics are great, there's plenty of sex and other spiciness to keep a reader engaged/engorged. It's a great game if you think of it as a kinetic novel.

My problem with the story is that I think it suffers for forcing the player to have so many meaningless relationships. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but being forced into having sex with so many side characters feels bad. For one thing, there's almost never any chemistry (AKA personal interest from me as the player) or intimacy (AKA backstory establishing any meaningful connection between the MC and the character) who's being fucked. This makes over 1/2 of the sex scenes have 0 sexual appeal AND worsens the sex scenes I do actually want to see, because it makes me feel like the main character has no standards or ability to form a meaningful relationship with someone.

It also impacts my immersion with the nonerotic portions of the story, because I can't fucking keep track of all of the characters the main character has banged, so I keep forgetting what kind of relationship I have with the massive cast of thirst traps at any given time.

If you like meaningless sex, you'll love this. Otherwise, you might have some problems, but it still has far more good than bad going for it, and worth checking out.

Look I get it AVN name is taboo university but DEV wants to push Futa/Trans and Bisexual/Gay heavily on this AVN which immediately takes this from maybe a 3-4 down to a 2. Make this far more optional and we cna def move up the scoring but at this point I can't do that at this point in time

Some LI's are hot and have decent backstories and characters, some are completely forgettable playing with a mod as I hate the only able to experience 2 out of 3 groups issue that dev imposed as well

Could be better, could be worse too. might be more for you than me.

I wasn't going to write a review of this game because it's not even worth it, but after seeing the latest reviews exaggerating what this AVN is, I was forced to expose the truth.

To begin with, it doesn't even seem like the same writer of Fetish Locator, that AVN without being 5 stars was good, it had a good narrative, the unnecessary dialogues weren't excessive, the personality of the girls had certain substance, it had a story that at least kept you entertained, however with this AVN you skip the entire text and you don't really miss anything, on the contrary you avoid all the cheesy and unnecessary dialogues... It's soo boring because it is full of clichés everywhere, it's like the Dev had decided to make an AVN according to the most popular parameters as long as it works and generate profits for Dev, who cares about true quality? And I am referring to the quality of the writing and history because the renders are good but let's be honest, good renders in almost 2026 it should be a basic thing.

And you may think "well, if it has good renders then it must be a good fapping game"... Well, if you use walkthrought and skip all the text, yes... Buuuut if we're going to judge this game as a porn game, there are many other games that are better simply because they focus on being a porn game and don't waste time trying to be a more serious AVN when it's clearly not within the current capabilities of the Dev or writer.

As someone who has played most AVNs on this site I wouldn't recommend it, perhaps only when you are bored and have nothing else to play but I still believe that there are better AVNs to waste time on, sincerily...

Almost everything about this game is at a very good level. Character designs, locations, animations, music and sounds... I really liked the plot of the game. If I saw a film like this on TV, I would definitely watch it until the end. I always liked the "undercover cop" theme. It's very clever that the characters are in three different groups. It's like I'm playing three different games. My favourite story is the one about the volleyball team.

Praise it or leave it

Vinovella has a distinct way that you'll either love it or consider it overestimated nothing-out-of-the-ordinary stuff.

For me, that's the first option. And since I did almost 100% of the game (except being the bottom for the futa), there's no fair reason for not give it a 5 stars.

However, picky players that refuse some attractive girls (despite this being clearly a harem game) can probably point plot holes that make the "illusion of choice" go away. They are correct. But, personally, I don't care. Just wish I could do both teachers simultaneously on the same playthrough.

Some people may dislike how the MC is, out of the box, perfect in everything. This criticism is valid, however, keeping the flow of the story should be a priority. Most players would find this game rather challenging if stat points were involved, so a good choice developers let things like they are.

I just rolled credits on this one. This first book is fantastic I throughly enjoyed the layout of the game and finding all the different scenes

The story: Very Good, easy to follow along with each group

The writing: the writing of the story is well written, no translation issues or mistypes. Very good for getting the story across

The renders/animations: Very good animations and renders

The models: All models are well designed and look fantastic both with and without clothes

This is a solid 4.5/5. (wouldn't allow me to add half a star) Excellent work Devs Keep up the good work in Book 2

Great game, had high hopes from fetish locator and definitely didnt disappoint.

MC felt appropriate

Dialogues were contructed nicely, had a lot of fun reading through them

Characters were very likeable and there is a big pool to choose from so everybody can enjoy.

Story was great a lot of different elements to look at and it was a real fun to progress it.

Sex scenes were done nicely a bit of animation here and there did them a lot off good definitely something worth playing the story for.

Overall a great game to play highly recommend to anybody vanilla/kinky everybody can pick their own poison in this one. Kudos to the developer for that.

One of the best.
Good Graphics with great kinks.
Hope for more game like Fetish locator or this one .
I enjoy that you can choose what kinks you like and even not straight ones like trans , even gay after last update ( nice surprise , it could be as good as fetish locator).

I really loved their previous game which was a 5* for me so I had high expectations.
The game delivers kinda, the girls are a great variety, there's many, and look great. The sex scenes are good. I love the depth of the scenes, there's discussion and playful communication not just mechanical sex or minimum basic lines to advance the plot, which makes it good.
The story is a bit meh, not the most inspired, let's say it works for the most part.
Another criticism is maybe the women are just way too perfect. I like a bit more realism in the variety, I mean really supermodels faces and shapes and makeups for most...? The milfs look way too perfect and young, a woman doesn't need to look like that to be attractive. But then I'm the kind of player I would do the lunch lady if I had the opportunity and that can be sexy as well depending of the interaction, if she acts like age appropriate (not too bitchy, not too girly, not too insecure).
What seems to be the worst part is the writing in some cases, there's a lot of over-analyzing emotions by the characters and the MC sounds like a bad stereotype of a psychologist. It got me wondering, is it a woman writing these? It's just too much sometimes. I get it he's mature and considerate, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but this MC seems a bit extreme sometimes. I just watched the scene between Zemfira, Nia and MC discussing their threesome and man the cheesy lines are really facepalm in this one. MC in general has often really bad lines that sound like they are from a psychologist from a badly rated movie. Must say Nia sometimes has even worse lines but fortunately generally the girls are not as bad as him.
Also, I get it that it must be explained from the story perspective why the guy can get away with screwing so many women, I do like that aspect of these games where you can do it and it's largely unpunished because I do want to see all the content I can, I mean it's a porn game, but some of the justifications are just weak, like how girls easily explain that a manwhore that cheats on them is exactly what they prefer. Fuckbuddy status may work with a teacher or someone that really doesn't seem to be relationship type at that stage of their lives, but it doesn't feel realistic at all with the more innocent type of girls. Either explain it better, or give a plausible possibility so they don't all know of each other so easily maybe?

All in all it's a very high quality production with very sexy girls and I'm glad these exist, so I really struggled between 4 and 5* as the bad lines of MC really ruin the immersion quite regularly. It's far from perfect really, but it's still a very good one so I'd consider it a weak 5*.
There's some favorites like Delphia (love her really), Josie, Lara, I enjoyed the milfs like Hellene, Diana, or Kara, but I like most of the cast really. Mostly the bad girls though i'd do the pregnant lady too if i had the chance.

i have seen a lot of games..games who progress with the time.. especially 3D Games shooters roleplays in the last 30years..and also some adultgames Lula 3D, Leisure Sweet Larry , Thrixx 3D and so....these adult games had a role only on the third street or a stay as a shadow beeing...
in my opinion adult games have just getting startet in the last 5 years to walk out of this shadow beeing...that means we are walking in a bright future..with implementing VR....oh that AI Girls. i see this as an appetizer...!
So with playing COBD , BEADIK, Fetish Locater, Betrayed.. and the new version of Babysitters version 1.3 /Animations i see this first signout of this shadow from the past...
But most of all what have impressed me is this Taboo University Game..
These Characters looks adult. The intim scenes are very good and always differnt...exciting and ready to expect new things--
The grafic set the new bars..especially this pool scene is so well done with rendered and lightning / illuminated , voice acting /voices...
so this game is the groundwork, for more whats coming up in the future!!!
My big respect to the developer´s....
Looking forward...and go on make it better and better......
5 Stars...

Based on 1.1.14
"Customizable story with many paths"... yeah... until it's not. Promise never delivered since, at some point, you're forced into certain chick. "Many paths", indeed. "Customizable", indeed. To be worse, it's done in a schizoprenic way, because that's chick which you, as a player, rejected multiple times before and then all of sudden you're cudling with her in bed, having sex, confessing profound love and what not. At first, I thought next scene will be something like, MC waking up gaspinng in horror what a nightmare he had, but no. It happened for real?!
That also speak volumes about quality of writing, so no need to add anything else. There is plot and there are holes. A lot of them.
From visual aspect, game is not bad. Renders and models are not top, but they are above average.
Slightly bellow average when it comes to personalities of characters.
Can't recommend to others.

Great game!!! loving the new series of the dev it can only get bette. theres a huge selecttion of women and different kinks to choose from, it should be higher on the rtings list. the fact theres a cult in this is huge then a fighting ring, its amazing that so much can be made in this game

I enjoyed this devs previous game Fetish Locator, but I had hoped that they would improve on some of the shortcomings that game had.

They didn't.

The main issues I have with both games are the poor plotting and the forced LI's.

This dev has a real problem with writing a compelling plot. They do a fantastic job making us care about a wide variety of characters, and then whip up the most dogshit, sophomoric plots possible. The gang shit and the doping stuff is so fucking dumb it's laughable. Sometimes it reads like teenagers first YA fanfic. This sucks because I find the characters to be pretty well done in general.

The second problem is the forced LI's. Now, I understand that sometimes forced LI's are necessary for plot purposes. But this game will give you a bunch of opportunities to rack up negative points/reject these forced LI's only for you to still have to end up with them. On top of that, they are probably the most boring characters in the game. I think every single non-forced LI is way more fun and interesting (roommates, iona/delphia/fleur/anyone else). I do hope in the future we can focus more on the girls we actually like.

Despite these pretty major flaws, I still really enjoyed the game. There are some characters I really like, and a ton of good scenes with a variety of content. I do expect more taboo stuff in the future cuz rn this game falls far short of Fetish Locator in that regard.

(btw Iona/Delphia ending pls. cant get enough of insane nymphos).

VERSION: 1.03
SUMMARY: Great looking game with interesting plot if not oddly weird.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 4
2. Animations: 4
3. General Visuals: 4
4. Characters: 4
5. Story: 4
6. Writing: 4
7. Pacing: 4
8. Content (amount): 4
9. UI & Sounds: 4
10. Fetish & kinks: 3

Average: 39 of 50 possible points giving a 78% rating i.e. 4-5 stars.

PROS:

1. Models are really nice looking and not all look the same as is often the case with many games using the same, similar models.
2. Animations are very good, including the style and how some moments are captured in small animations.
3. Story is pretty interesting and makes me curious to see how it all ties up and ends.
4. Many potential love interests
5. Characters are often complex and interesting with own back story, issues, desires and agendas.
6. Writing is very good, reads well and is not filled with a bunch of bullshit or nonsense, there is purpose behind what is written.
7. Sounds are good, interesting how they are done with voice bits but not fully voiced, its actually a good balance as many fully voiced games just are poorly done or the AI does it poorly. Sexual sounds are also very nicely done.
8. UI and interaction are limited but good, the way the investigation board is nicely done, but the player is limited as its all linear, still impressive.
9. Good amount of content, though at this point in time I would expect nothing less, still, I have played games that are longer in development and have half this content and not nearly as decent.

CONS:

1. Linear game, mostly kinetic and hard to really say there is choice as often choosing the only other option forces a loss to many H scenes and I think since we all here its pretty much a lot about those scenes...
2. Per above being linear (kinetic) is that certain kinks like transgender characters are not totally avoidable. IMO LGBTQ should be optional as they cater to a significant minority of our population.
3. Not many fetishes or kinks TBH, strange if you consider the games name being Taboo, there is not much at all of this going on. There is suggested pregnancy, but it would probably be only a small part of the game and as such I hardly feel its worth mentioning, same with any other kinks, they all fairly vanilla for many normal sexual encounters by today's standards.
4. Per above, basically there are not many kinks or fetishes nor family related sex so incest is out, which is a significant taboo, but again nothing of the sort is really happening in this game, if anything it lacks the taboo and fetishes.

FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:

• So far I am impressed, however per above points, cons particularly, I do feel here is a missed opportunity.
• There will no doubt be much more to come, though I do feel the dev has held back on the kinky stuff for later, understandable, however I feel some of the stuff could have been introduced already to keep it extra interesting like watersports or urination even anal sex is not yet a feature...
• As far as the plot and story goes, the way the developer strung it all together, is very well done. I appreciate the thought and effort that went into making this, its not some simple plot either, so well done.

There's too much text, and the choices in the game only affect whether you get a sex scene or not. There are too many characters, the game is overloaded with them and every female character is ready to jump on the main character's dick.
There are too many scenes. And yes, it's bad. They are monotonous and boring. There were a couple of interesting femdom moments, but otherwise it all boils down to the fact that someone sucks the main character, and then he fucks her. If this is a Taboo University, then where are the depraved fetishes? But there aren't any. Almost, there was one scene where a girl fucked another guy with a strap-on. And why did the game completely forget about Josie? We were given one scene with her. Why do I need a bunch of female characters, I need Josie, she's much more interesting.
This game is literally a step back from Fetish Locator.

Interesting story about an undercover investigation at a university/college, with a three pronged approach into different groups/cliques. Decisions seem worth making considering the story is rather intriguing. The web of threads and characters is a nice touch. The character models, personalities and cast itself is fabulous. The kinks/fetishes touched upon are diverse too, with a little of everything for everyone. The sex scenes as well as interactions are well made. Definitely a game worth playing!

Kinda interesting setup even though no one would send a rookie on an undercover mission. But in any case a nice twist on the school setting.

What I liked
very nice to look at, nice diversity in the girls, animated scenes are quite good and they don't distract from the main story lines.
Fleur made it easily into my list of top redheads and the other ladies are very appealing as well.

What I did not like
Audio consists of music that I mostly did not care for but that was not a huge issue. However, every sentence that you read on the screen is accompanied by some kind of exclamation or grunt from whoever is speaking at the moment. That made me mute the game entirely because I found it very annoying.
I did not quite understand the design choice to disregard 1 out of 3 suspect groups entirely. Not sure it increases replay value because in any case you will get a full repetition with one of the other groups and there are no significant branches there to explore either.
As choices go that was mostly it. You can decide to not engage further with a group or a character but mostly the story only plays out in one way.

Overall nice game with plenty of content at the end of book 1.