Unity - Taffy Tales [S1 v1.1.55 Redux] [UberPie]

I have been accompanying and loving this game since 2019 and always looked forward to what exciting sex scenes and circumstances like that could come? Mary (Peter's Mom) or Danny for other fetish things really hit me and since then I've been happy to play with every update. Unfortunately, update after update became too sluggish and patience increased and quality became quantity instead of more!

The story was always well told (especially the blackmail story was very entertaining) but I just see more rubbish coming out of it.

It seemed to me as if UberPie had taken a nice long vacation before and only worked on it in the game for 3 months!

That was exactly as much content as the last game but it only lasted 4 months. I'm ashamed that I supported him.
I feel like I've been cheated. 5$ x 8 months = 40$ for a cheap piece of shit?!
There are others who paid $20 (which I can't believe either) who paid a total of 8 times for $160.

The UberPie made a lot of money with 30% tax deductions, but still made a lot and probably thought where he was on the sunny beach: "Screw it, they get what they want, regardless of whether I put in AI art or just a little content. Ha hah ha that idiot!”

Actually, when using the "AI art" he has to charge less for the subscription (since when does Chantelle! have 3 entrances in her asshole?!)

The pandemic must have made his head stupid!
But the one idiot out of many that I fired yesterday! This game is dead for me!

Actually it only deserves 1 star, but that's why it still gets 3 stars because the previous update didn't extend it.

When the subscribers are lost, he will clearly see the statistics and regret what he has done, but unfortunately it will be too late and I just hope that he should work more on it again instead of trolling around in the news!

I'm seriously, seriously disappointed!

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MC has a car accident and develops a split personality (red). It is his repressed inner chad, sick and tired of the MC being such a weak simpy cuck. Here to teach the MC how to be real man and acquire a harem of all the bitches.

MC has a 3rd leg because
There is also very light supernatural elements involved too. as red has some extrasensory perception. being able to Sense a new life the moment it is concieved. (explicitly presented as a plot point. and explicitly discussed after the sex scene was done)

A long time persistent issue is that you lose your savegame every single update.
The game comes with a locked "previous update finished" save file. But that requires that you:
1. subscribe to their patreon or pirate the code
2. never skip an update.
3. get 100% completion on each update.

the last point is the hardest as there is usually some bug or another preventing you from doing so.

For a very long time now I have just been using a gallery unlocker to see new scenes instead of actually playing. Even before the art quality dropped I was using this game exclusively as a gallery.

Season 1-4 v0.89.8b
very sexy overall.

Season 5 v1.07.3a
art quality took a huge nosedive. it is just not sexy anymore.

I really wish I could say this game is awesome. It's full of thicc characters and it leans a lot on the huge dick fetish, stomach deformation and all that. It is kinda hardcore too but not as hardcore as it feels it wants to make you believe. It wants to make you think "Red" has no morals and would do anything but in the end all he does is fine because they all wanted it.
The pacing is also bad imho. I understand "slow burn" but this felt more like "drunken glacial burn", it just takes FOREVER for stuff to start happening and that the sandbox part of the game is a broken mess doesn't help, hence the "drunken" part and the final glaring issue of the game.
The flow of the game is broken, and I mean all seasons but the older ones seems to be worse, and that makes hunting for the events even worse and slow. Stuff like it being evening already but I go to a specific place, get a rerun of an event I already watched during the day and after it ends the game is again at "Day" instead of evening or night. Among other similar things.
So yeah, it gets frustrating enough you just look for a clear save game for the gallery, unless you have a lot of time to waste and wander around instead of playing something else.
To be fair, once the sex starts it throws a lot at you and the writing is nice, though again it suffers due to the broken sandbox. Like the characters talking about something that happened "yesterday" but it's already been days, you just didn't get the events to show properly because of the time of the day been all over the place.
I really hope it eventually gets properly polished but as it is I really can't recommend anyone to actually "play" it.

I'm not a big fan of this game, because it has a few glaring issues that seriously hamper it being able to appeal to me. This wouldn't warrant a negative review if it weren't for the game seeming to be heading towards doing something, then immediately shrinking away from it before it does a good enough job to scratch that particular itch.
Blackmailing the school's cleaning lady into sex? Don't worry, it turns out she loves it. Want to abuse your teacher's addiction for your own sexual gain? Last I checked, that option just tells you the path hasn't been started on, despite it having been in the game for years. This all to say: why have the protagonist develop an evil split personality instead of just making him a normal horny teenage boy with above average game if there's nobody you can try to bone who needs more than a little push before they're into it?
The answer might just be that it's on Patreon, and most taboo themes are big no-nos if you want your game to stay on Patreon. I don't know, I don't care. The game repeatedly looks like it's heading towards letting you do bad things before backing down with its tail between its legs.
The final problem I remember well enough to actually say anything about is that every time I've installed a new version of the game, I've had to replay it from the very beginning. This is annoying as fuck in a psuedo-sandbox that has you constantly running everywhere trying to find the next event to progress any given character's storyline.

a very good game,i love the art,but playing the new optional route NTR,man,this is so boring,is so fucking sad see Darnell in control and Peter so lame,my conclusion is...TAFFY TALES is all about RED!
Whitout him the game is so lame and boring that i simple can t enjoy it(remenber im only speaking about NTR because the MAIN ROUTE reamains amazing).

I would like to give my opinion on this game since I have played many hours of it.

At first the art seemed strange to me, it was different from anything I had played before. The changes between the "sprites" and the images of the game scenes were different. For example, Mary's cutscenes are often different from the sprite shown throughout the game.

There are too many characters. In the end there are so many plots and they are mandatory to carry out that you end up getting bored and quickly passing through the conversations that you don't like. In my case I like Clara's plot and her son's Danny hers. I also like Priscila's or Professor Sara's.
But there are so many plots around that I notice that after more than 4 years of development, there is very little real content for the characters. If there were half as many characters, the game would be much more fluid.

But everything has gotten worse with the new updates. Especially with the new version. Now separate the game into two: main route and NTR route. The main route is super boring, it's basically Chantelle and Tiffany all the time. NTR route is the worst, the protagonist becomes useless. And by far (where I stopped playing) is Gerda's transformation. It's a shame what they've done to the character.

The developer said that thanks to the use of AI the game would progress much faster. But I only see that the quality has been reduced and that now abs and biceps appear on all the characters. The worst thing is that updates take longer than ever.

A game that gives you a handjob in 25 hours is not good, and now it's getting worse.

I give it two stars, because at the beginning it had its work. But now I would give it 0 if I could.

This review was made with Google Translate. English is not my native language.

Started off rather well, felt like there was plenty of potential, but slowly became convoluted, certain questlines seemingly not getting resolved or leaving you lost on what to do if you didn't go for it right away (for example, if you were doing something else, but stopped to talk to a character, there's little to no indication where you should pick it back up when you have time) and most importantly - the art style. It was probably the strongest aspect of the game, which is unfortunate, as it gets replaced with somewhat lazy AI art down the line, with clear issues, like clothing blending into skin, broken teeth melting into the lips, etc. - just a huge turn off all around, even if you can ignore the mismatching art style

Whoever made this is horrifying and wonderful. The art is fantastic, the story progression is disgustingly perverted. Use your giant dick to cut a path of destruction through an entire town. It's a bit of a slow burn, but it absolutely does not disappoint. I'm eagerly anticipating continued development. With such high quality, I'm amazed it's gotten this far, but the devs seems to keep marching ahead and god bless them for it.

I have been playing this game for 4.5 years one of the first games I picked up after joining F95 I used to be very excited about the game but there have been constant issues.

Game play buggy , such as the quest systems and map issues that all seem to be crappy coding related. after many updates a lot of these issues remain.

Art was one of the main selling points for the game despite inconsistencies it was pretty good until the Dev decided to turn to AI art now every character has 6 pack abs weird hands and arms as well as a bunch of other stuff that pops up its like he's not even looking at what he produces anymore.

Story , it used to be decent had me wanting to find out more but after the revamp of the beginning of the game the story line has all but disappeared now all it seems to be is pack as many fetishes into the game and screw the story that was...

a bunch of simple things the Dev don't care about grammar, typo's and naming of characters changing from what you set them as.
Multiple instances of characters all over the map Becca at school ,Becca at the mall , Becca in the park .... just an example cause all characters show up almost every where at once.

Dev said with the use of AI he would be able to pump out more frequent updates sure don't seem like that's true.

Lastly , Dev split the game into two separate parts to make an NTR rout which was pointless because he already had a way to add the pre-planned content inside the original frame of the game with easily avoidable choices. Now its essentially two games so much for AI making the updates faster....

I was a big fan of this in the beginning although it is natural for games in dev to wander around a bit to find there place this one is headed in the wrong direction. At this point only following this to see how big of a train wreck it will become.

One of the worst experiences I had in a while in this site...
Sure, there are way worse-looking, clunky, buggy or with stupid stories games.
The problem here is that you start playing, notice some problems and get in that mode in which you think: " well,surely it will get better later, right?". And it doesn't.

Best thing I did was download a save and check the gallery. Played a few hours, got no enjoyment. Checked the gallery, played some events. Nothing interested me...

It feels like at some points it got a heart and something put effort into it. No idea how it got to this points though.

Visuals: this game got my attention because of its unique look, in a first glance. Sadly it got boring really fast as the art started giving a weird generic feel. Didn't help that the MC looks dumb (to match his 0personality I guess).
I guess my problem was that the faces have some weird expressions, and mostly looking always the same.
I'm also not really interested in exaggerated body parts, so that certainly plays its role in my experience.
And then in the sex scenes I don't think they did a good job with the posing. When the renders are alternated to simulate motion you don't really get something that feels real, with friction or anything like that. It feels bland, idk.
In the end it got boring really fast. Not the worst, it just did nothing to me. Not once I managed to find something hot. It's a porn game... But just to be fair, once again, this part I believe to be more personal, so I can take easier on the "score".

Sadly, that's just about everything I could try to see some good in it.

UI/UX: my experience with the game got really bad the more I played because of the stupid transitions all over the place. At least when the game is made on Ren'py the devs usually maintain to option to skip transitions. And I don't mean cutscenes or events transitions. It looks like everything that happens must have a fade out/fade in too inflate "game time". What is the reason to force me to wait a few milliseconds every time I click on something? Everytime I stard/end a dialogue, receive an item, repeat an action... anything. It makes the game just stupidly slow for no gain. If this would be put in a build up scene, where you have sex for the first time with someone, after antecipating it for a while... but no, it is just everywhere.

The skip time option disappeared after a while...
I never had any use for the inventory screen.
The hints UI look ok I guess.
Map is ok as well.

Another UX thing that is badly done is when you want to byu things. You can't just enter 'shop mode' as you would expect. No. You have to talk to the person, get through all the dialogue and then buy ONE thing. If you want to buy more, click again, talk again and the get to the point of selection ONE thing to buy. It wouldn't be much if I was already having to click needlessly in a lot of other moments. The game ends up feeling like those click to win games. I honestly ended up expecting some mobile bs to start happenning.


Event System and Game Design: that was the first thing that bothered me. The way story and things progress in the game makes no sense. They are in no way really connected. Ofc, sometimes things makes sense. But overall, they don't.
They you start seeing events overlapping (NPC appears more than one time in the same scene lol) and you don't really have a thread to follow. Sometimes you just look to the hints and try to guess what that hint was supposed to mean (a few times they were even misleading).


Story: I do hate when Devs create another personality to justify the MCs actions. In the end, it is basically a kinect experience since your choices, in the rare moment they are presented to you, make no difference basically. I'm not a NTR fan, but I guess even then I would be disappointed since I'm not really the one doing or suffering things. The alter ego is just always there. Wish it was more of a subtle influence, etc.
The MC is really annoying. Talks too much about things that doesn't add anything to the story. And listen, I'm an RPG guy. I played Baldurs Gate, Skyrim... I open the books and read them. Because they add context to the world. Here? At few times they did. Most are the dumb mc mumbling or whining

Sound: since I was getting bothered really fast, I ended up muting the sound right away. The music wasn't bad, but being used as highlighting for events or mood changes was getting annoying too fast. But it might be mostly because of that bad experience with the story progression, the annoying MC and, well, every annoying NPC.
SFX overall are there, but I ended up muting them when I didn't hear anything in the scenes. (or were them attached to the music and that's why I heard nothing? that would be dumb, but well...)

As I said, with a few hours got no enjoyment out of it.
Can't really recommend, it just really didn't work for me.

My journey with this game was a long one.

Taffy Tales has had quite the reputation for years now, usually among the sort of people that take a strange sense of pride in the embarrassing things they fap to.

And this game explains a lot of that.

I was told to play the new NTR route because it was a shit show.

It is. It's just as bad as you've heard, and probably even worse. The AI art is not just atrocious, but the really insulting part about it is that it features quite a few errors that would be trivial to fix. But you know what?

He just didn't.

Why?

I don't know.

So okay, the NTR route sucks. We all know that by now. But wait, this route is nothing like the game before, or so I'm told. The content before is classic weg goodness, and is the inspiration for so many games on this site.

Surely it must be so much better...right?

No.

It's not.

The NTR route has one massive improvement over the original route.

It fucking ends. It only takes about an hour and half to do and while it's just a series of really racist caricatures that only an embarrassingly European person could possibly masturbate to, it has the grace to bow out and finish after you've watched enough melted candle wax women drink fluids from bottles.

The main route is not nearly so merciful. The actual first time you can get the MC's dick into a marelike nightmare vagina is about 3 hours in if you actually read this ChatGPT nonsense.

Every background is a fever dream. A solemn dread fills my being recalling the ethereal blur that stretches across my monitor. Nothing has mattered less to this Dev than where his characters are in time and space. Nothing rewards you for looking away from the characters. You are met with winding hallways, impossible Euclidian geometry, and sets that I can only describe as hyperbolic.

The only comparison I could possibly make for how the open world segments of this game feel is the Bataan Death March; a defeated soldier being forced forward at bayonet point to what I can only hope is a ditch and a bullet with my name on it.

The event order makes absolutely no sense. None. The quest journal is less helpful than just clicking around randomly. The sole mini-game is a fapping simulator that takes about 45 minutes to actually unlock.

The only good addition to the main route made with this latest update is Taksh and only because I suspect he might pull a school shooting and mercy kill these microwaved barbie doll characters.

Please don't play this game. There is no redeeming feature present worth your time, dignity or patience.

There is no acquired taste here, only the sad settling of a 40 year old virgin taking whatever he can possibly get so that he doesn't die alone and is surrounded by his hateful step children (wife's sons) who will rob his corpse the second his last breath leaves his sad, tormented lungs.

You deserve better. You matter more than this game. Do not play it.

Why does a game about having sex with women take so fucking long to have sex with women. It constantly cock blocks you in nonsensical ways because he needs you to come back for the next update. The open world is an insane labyrinth that's actually gotten worse over time. Most games when they change the early sections make them more streamlined so it's easier to digest and get to the parts people like. Somehow it is even more convoluted. Also a lot of the new "content" added in this new early game is AI assets that look worse than the older work.

EDIT: the new NTR stuff is incredibly weak. Where's the fucking despair man? It feels so tacked on and lazy.

I didn't know that they were going to use AI until I noticed it in the scenes, which denotes the developers' loss of interest in their product, I have nothing against NTR but you have to know when it can work and when it doesn't, the example from mangakas when they make a harem manga and suddenly fill it with NTR, the fans get angry and forget about the work, I know the NTR route is avoidable, but it's wasted time and content

The devs unfortunately seem to have gotten bored with working on the game. This last update the lack of effort and laziness really showed. The amount of content received did not move forward storylines meaningfully and quality of the art has dipped drastically as they are now relying on AI to do a large part of the work for them. Do not support them on Patreon.

Where to begin... the game starts off well with a story that seems interesting enough, the mechanics/sandbox and quest hint system works well, the art is nice, but with the last few updates it all just fell apart, especially trying to juggle ntr and non ntr routes(which I played both) the writing is super lazy, either the MC is a cuck or a weird rapist that almost seems boarder line school sh**ter if he didn't have his rape powers, the antagonist Darnell seems better written but the writer tries his best to make him unlikeable in the laziest way. Now the art went downhill since lazily using AI, the story got boring and to get to the new content just becomes a grind to get each new scene. Overall a game that couldn've been in the top 10 or 20 when complete is pretty ruined and I will not play future updates.

Fun in the beginning, but most of the game is just a single character, which I would even go as far as to call side character. This game has few characters with a decent amount of content, rest have like... 3 scenes, if not less. Recent update introduced AI imaginery... The update was so hyped just for them to underdeliver like that...

I'm giving it 2 stars as it has atleast something praiseworthy.

This just keep getting worst with every update. Clearly the road map is a joke and always the same girls with constant updates. The ai nightmare fuel and the developers weird netorare fetish was the las drop for me...

The game is good. Really like Becca, Priscilla and Stacy. Red's an interesting way to get the MC to become kind of a chad. I wish some of the task notes were more clear on what to do but other than that the game is fine.

Game has had its ups and downs with development hell but the art is amazing and the story is really hot and compelling. I always come back and check in on this one, it's definitely worth it.

Writing is good and animation is stellar.

Quite extensive very enjoyable game. Wish there was a bit less milf focus as that's not my preference but there's plenty of other girls to enjoy. Really looking forward to where the interactions with Chantelle, Tiffanie and Stacy end up.