Ren'Py - Take Over [v0.79] [Studio Dystopia]

loosely based on the popular novel of George Orwell's 1984 this game seems to take on a "what if it had certain mind control elements?"

The idea itself is awesome and setting is spot on. It feels atmospheric and you can sometimes feel the pressure of living in an authoritan society. The MC elements are your run of the mill type. Slowly pushing them deeper into control. What strikes me the most is how quickly it all goes... Bland. The characters are somewhat dull and the sandbox style gives it a very artificial feeling. It's as if it's all held together by something frail and you can tell.

A solid 3/5 at this point. Not bad but nothing memorable about it.

Extremely repetitive game. You dont see any progress in corruption cuz everything gets so fast. All you need to do the whole days is, working on your potions. If your suspicious gets to high go to work. Make the girls drink the potions and fuck them. It takes around 10 minutes in real time to be able to fuck every girl in the game.

This game started as a good mind-control themed sandbox and slowly but steadily turned into a railroading experience ... It feels like the dev doesn't know where to go with his game so he reverted back to a simple linear progression. It truly is a pity, it had great potential.

The sandbox is underwhelming, the management could be more satisfying and the graphics are below today's standards ... I could only recommend this game for its soundtrack which is quite limited but great.

EDIT: this review covers version ~0.41 which I didn't complete because it was just that boring.

Not bad, but its minimalist presentation is not something i like, makes every conversation and lewd scene quite underwhelming. Not a fan of the MC either. The conversation he has with the other characters are pretty bad, not always but most of the time, and the build up to the lewd scenes are almost non existent most of the time. Gameplay wise it has some good ideas but their execution could be better, and the further you get in the game the more complicated it becomes, which, in all honesty among other things, stopped me from getting to the end of the available content, i just could not be bothered.
Overall its not terrible but it requires some grinding. It has an interesting premise that has potential, The game also needs a hint function, or maybe there is i just didnt find it. I dont know. Its worth a shot just to see if you like it or not.

I'm going to start by saying that this one isn't my cup of tea. But, it was still pretty good (especially with the console commands reducing a lot of grind). There's a wide variety of women, including some plus-sized which is a bonus because most devs avoid that like the plague. And if you know exactly what you like, you can even alter them all to fit your specific fetishized ideal. The story is decent to boot. I personally won't be playing it again because it doesn't quite check enough of my own boxes, but I would still recommend it to anyone who likes the mind control genre.

Love this game great work.

The characters are well written and there is a variety of different models which I like. This has to be top ten mind control games on f95 hard to say exactly where it should be. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes mind control.

I liked the start of the game. The story is something new and different. And I like these management games. For the first part of the game, I'd have given 5 stars.

But very quickly it becomes clear that most places are irrelevant. What at first looks like there are many places where you can do stuff, it turns out that actually, there is always only 1 or 2 things to do. Instead of a management game, where you really have to manage something, the game turns very fast into a simple VN, with some annoying clicking that needs to be done (sleep and change locations).

There are several times of day, which becomes irrelevant fast, because you only can do 1 action and then you go to auto-sleep and wake up next morning.

The whole gameplay mechanics also become irrelevant, because quite fast you just have too much serum, research and money and no way to spend it. What is left is to just click through the story. That does not feel good, because this game tries to not be a VN.

Starting from second part of the game, the only thing you do is get up, go to current story place, click through scene, go to sleep.

Also really a pity: Most characters only play a role in a very limited timeframe. The three women the game starts with become just completely irrelevant very quickly. On the other hand, there is Vera where it does not seem to make a difference if you corrupt her or not.

The game needs much more gameplay around the story. More researchable stuff. More training. Let some side stories be prerequisites for new research, instead of just being there. Balance the game much better.

Advice from me: For a very long time, do NOT proceed in continuing the story. Instead, balance the game. Make management an aspect for the whole game, not only at the start. Parallelize a lot of things, so it does feel less like a VN. Make stuff believable (Sorry just go to HQ and keep clicking to progress some task? That could be distributed over the city). Let a shop open to buy clothing and accessories for the girls. etc.pp.

amazing game... too bad that that you cant make them all petite ... and sad that you cant use serum on emma and jasey ...
overall amazing game, good story. alot to do .. i would say 9.5/10 <3
i wish this game was fully finished with all its possibilitys and stuff, but sad enough, i dont have a time machine XD

I want to see this game in the future when it has more content. DEspite being a mental control game, basically which is something i dont like cause usually its used as an excuse to expedite otherwise complex processes like legit character develppment, the originality of the idea can make up for it.

But it should work on better renders and scenes in general. And that opaque textbox that ocupies 25% od the screen is the worst idea ever.

The story is really interesting, a fresh one that is not often seen around and that leads to some very interesting outcomes. But let's be honest: we don't play lewd games for the story, but for the lewd scenes. And the lewd scenes are not that good.

The models have some variety and the scenes also do. But the lewd scenes are not animated and they have just a couple of frames. The models themselves are not great either and could be improved upon.

This is not a bad game, but it is not great either. Average is a very suitable grade, imo.

excellent and engaging game with lots of cool sex scenes and a cool story with lots of progression and scope for more. It also has a great theme and the story really goes places. I would definitely recommend it. 5 stars

A Solid managment/corrution game with multiple charaters that have different , looks personalities fetisches and weaknesses.The serum explanation is cohernt and the endgame shows ambitons, the first 2 sections of the game are done ,and the third is acessible but not really featuring progression. Feels a bit like Lab rats 2 in a good way

Version 0.33

The 3 stars only because i like the story and the premise.

Cons
-While corrupting with your serum the intake scene never changes for the girls, no matter their stage - kinda lazy from dev
-- Same lazyness goes for random events like at work. Your boss is allready your sub but there are still events where you are interrupted by her like "what are you doing?! Im you boss bla bla"

- H-Scenes are below or at best average. Only every 20th or so scene is kinda "animated" - i hate it, when the text in this scenes tells you a ton of stuff what isnt shown like "you slip your hand in her pants" and all you see is two ppl staying next to each other...

i will play this version till the end just for the story but i dont think i will download the next one.

I've been going through a lot of games on this website lately because I reached the point that I'm scrolling trough regular porn thinking "seen that, know that one, o yeah that one sucked" and sadly if you scroll trough porn looking for newest video's you only get clickbait video's of crap.

Let me start positive and say that the whole 1984 setting is a very nice touch and this alone is worth 2 stars. The models look good as well.

Sadly I feel the info about doing body transformations is to limited. It doesnt say what you can transform and the console command is just that: a command. You execute it and nothing happens and you sit there still wondering what you can transform. I have searched the fapzone site and found a mod that allows body transformations into 4 body types thus I'm guessing the dev added this mod into the game, since the other cheat options where also included. Also the dev said he couldnt rlly gve you a change clothes option because it would need to many re-renderings. So that means there is prolly not much to body transform. This is a minus star for false advertisement in my book. It feels like the whole body transformation thing is kept vague but is still explicitly mentioned in the description to have people fantasize about the options they get only to be disappointed later...

So, the setup for the game is good, but then we get to after 1st hour of gameplay:

- only the "sex" scene is animated, and this is done by alternating 2 pictures. The blowjob, handjob, anal scenes are not animated. They are 3-4 pics and some tekst. So the game is no fap material. I dont know about others but I lke these porn games to have a build up, and some sense of achievement, all to get to a good and descent fappable porn scene. Sure there is porn on the internet, but having an MC and building up to a scene is the whole attraction of this genre of porn (visual novels).

- So, since its not fap material, what do we have left? Well the setting is great, the way the MC takes over the town slowly is great, but the H-scenes are meh for several reasons. First of all the MC has a small penis. I am sorry but I find all penisses smaller then mine small and all that are bigger, big. If your sister finally gives you a handjob and your penis is about as big as her hand is wide then thats not doing anything for me. especially if its 1 still image for the whole scene...Suddenly in the blowjob scene you do have some penis, but its only slightly longer then the width of her hand and its 2 still images....

I really wish the scenes where animated properly and with some kind of actual penis...

Also the story and setup from the start pretty much grinds to a halt quite fast changing into an imagefap gallery that you have to unlock by grinding actions that people will probably just use the cheat menu for.

So in short:

+ good startup scenes, nice 1984/bladerunner mood, nice looking models

- small penis, still images, good start ends into a grind for unlocking some still images.

I love the depth of this game. The second phase where you start taking over the city at large was completely unexpected. The game has a little bit of a learning curve at the start, but once you know how to balance suspicion, it is off to the races.

Fun playthrough, spent lots of time on this one.

The dev makes very good use of storage space for the amount of playtime and content.
Lots of potential for world expansion in this IMO.

Definitely recommend it, particularly if you are an old school gamer. Anyone looking for purely a quick fap should check out a porn only site.

I really liked this game at the start. I started playing when the only characters were your house-mates and the corruption and plotline was interesting. Now, several updates later, the storyline is bloated and the game scope is way too large.

Over-ambitious and convoluted, it's reached this critical mass a while-ago when I realized every time I booted this game, I couldn't recall who was who anymore.

Your character has so many flings with so many people that it takes out all of the intimacy from any relationship since they all last about 5 minutes anyway. You literally pump and dump them. What's the point?

At first I really enjoyed the sharing content since you were able to share your most intimate girls. However, now you rarely even talk to them anymore besides weekly shit like taking your laundry which leads to the same scene.

The world doesn't feel lived in at all. It feels linear and things of the past are forgotten and left behind. It's very unfortunate that I have to leave a 1 star rating because I really thought this was a diamond in the rough at first.

Story: 0/10.
Yes, I'm being this harsh. It's convoluted. It was interesting at first, but it's such a cluster fuck I don't recall who's fucking who at this point - Actually, everyone is fucking everyone cus why does it matter. It's way too large in scope and focuses way too much on the small details. Infiltrate this, fuck this person. Repeat.

What you get is bloated story with too many minor characters that don't mean anything, and the major characters became minor characters cus they don't shine anymore. No more time to focus on them. They don't really come back to help you out in current missions, so why bother corrupting them? Stay-at-home sex sleeves? Sure, but we get recycled scenes, nothing new.

So, you corrupt new girls. Then you move on to the next arc and they're useless again. Like, there was this girl who was good at infiltrating who I thought had great potential to carry over to the next arc, but you just dump her back at HQ and she essentially stops existing. Piss poor writing, in my honest opinion. I don't care about any of your characters nor your story, and I think that's a writer's worst nightmare.


Visuals: 6/10. Rough around the edges, no animations (from what I recall), girls look alright.

Fetishes: used to be 7/10, now 1/10. You used to share your room-mates and your slowly corrupted aides, now they're just a dime a dozen and you fuck everything you see anyway. There's no familiarity, no sense of progression since you essentially reset to 0 after you move on from story arc to story arc.

The sharing and NTR fetishes are so weak simply because you have no memorable relation to any of them. Even that girl, emma or something who was fat and you can turn skinny, the author tried to make her relevant for like an arc or two but had the most boring personality out of the cast at that point, and tried to do some "ntr" thing but it was so weak since it was a single scene and she just leapt straight into it. What's the point? No corruption, no strings attached. Lame.

tl;dr:
Too long-winded, forgot old characters, no intimacy = no kick to sharing fetish. Way too ambitious game scope. Too many characters. Doesn't understand what makes fetishes kick.

Not to much to say about this one, it's alright, it's got decent art and the sex scenes are enjoyible and it's got alot of content, but the gameplay really isent fun and the balancing is just completely busted Sence people barley need any serums to "level up" and you can get like 10 serums a day.

I can't bealive I'm saying this but make the game more Gindy and it's a 5/5 star game

Would recommend exspecily if your a fan of lab rats 1

While the fetishes this game caters to will not be for everyone, people who do appreciate them are in for a real treat. While the writing is under revision and could certainly use work (both simple proofreading and real quality improvements) the art and options that are available are impeccable. The game mixes mind control and body transformation within a unique setting. I never knew I wanted to fuck the Oceania bureaucrats so bad.

Where the game does falter is mostly with pacing. Towards the end of the existing contents you'll hit arbitrary walls like "wait x days" and you'll have to just spam through every day until the next thing. This would be/is getting better with more secondary content to look at, like going to locations with the girls. Still, it's clear that lot more of that is planned than actually exists, and things like the body morph machine provide temptation without consistently delivering because of how few scenes involving it are actually in the game yet.

review based on version 0.28
first of all- its not a simple "corruption" game- after some main story events game ll have "management" element.
PRO:
- not bad CG
- good code
- its one of the few games in which you feel complete progress more than 50%
CONS:
- zero animations
- not so many pics. its mean- even for transformations only few is ready.
- some pics missing
- some managment elements looks unbalanced

so dnt be tricked by small game size- if u like that kind of games- u ll spend some hours with pleasure.