VN - Ren'Py - Tales from the Unending Void [v0.21 Extra] [Perverteer]

A long time from now in a galaxy far, far away.
If that line triggers you, you are what TFTUV is aiming for. Best described as a mix between Mass Effect’s romance options and Star Wars’ worldbuilding, this game will set you on path to meet sexual deviants of all space races. May the flirts be with you.

STORY
The story is pretty simplistic in setup - there’s a human family fallout (within a human faction called the Sovereign) and that triggers a lot of bad things in the galaxy. The world around it is not so simple, however. Perveteer takes pride in building his space galaxy with both lush and desolate planets. Bipedal and fluid species. Alien religions and customs that would never work on Earth. The world building is easily the best part about this game. Once it kicks into gear, no distance is too small to travel.

We have to mention the relationships however. You’ll have all the chance to romance aliens, potential enemies and even your own family. That last part is pretty controversial and the game really takes it’s time to weigh out the relationships and their meaning. One relationship could mean the end of another, so it’s important to pick wise. There’s something for everyone here though - young, futanari, trans, alien, breeding and all kinds of fetish content.

Over the years, this game has grown into at least two full seasons of adventure. While it’s already quite long, it is best played in stages like you would watch a Star Wars saga. One could argue the series is extending it’s welcome beyond the core story, but with new planets and species to explore - its just begging to be expanded.

Personally I don’t find the MC to be all that interesting, both visually and lorewise. It’s through the connections with other characters that this game shines. One special connection is with Jade, who was brought in your family to be your personal slave - but could become much more if that’s what you wish for. It's between these connections that the game shines best. There are multiple of these in the game, each person questioning their existence in the universe and who they should become.

PRESENTATION
Graphically the game is unlike what I’ve seen before in AVN’s. We’re always used to that office desk, that bedroom or a fantasy castle. This game is rich in colours and environments and doesn’t shy away from flaunting. One could say the graphics are getting more dated due to the game being a few years old - but honestly it’s so fresh it manages to stand out regardless.

Perverteer uses renders for the main story and when sexy time comes in, the animations start kicking in. They’re often quite minimal and effective, but this does allow the game to have multiple per session. The game reads like a comic book at times and that works well for me.

GAMEPLAY
This being an AVN the gameplay consists mostly of story choices. They don’t impact the game story too much, but it will impact which relationships flourish and which won’t. A nice addition is the ship-map overlay, which shows you a map of the ship with corresponding crew icons. It’s another choice menu, but it’s an extremely engaging way of providing context. You get an idea for where the crew members are in relation to the ship.

Would have loved more tap-interaction games or even computer console stuff as this plays out far out in space and lots of things are technologically enhanced. The story would allow for many contextual tap ideas, such a mind-reading the right person, starting a launch sequence and so forth. Then again, this is a game that’s focused on relationships as much as it is on story.

OVERALL
Perverteer has - after a great previous game - outdone himself with Tales From The Unending Void. The game is definitely Sci-fantasy heavy and doesn’t shy away from sexual fantasies, which fit in with the curiosity of the galaxy. While the Sovereignty's story might outstay it’s welcome, the universe this game created definitely doesn’t. I can’t wait for next instalments as well as different takes in this galaxy where the protagonist isn’t even human.

4.5 / 5, rounding out to 5 for the simple fact it created an entire universe for us to fantasize in. This is a must play.

[Reviewed v0.19]

For a game that was initially posted more than 4 years ago (December 2019), it has lost some of its shine, but if you are looking for a friends-and-family sci-fi harem game with lots of fappable content, this is a solid choice.

The Good ()

• Good diversity of girls with different personalities and overall looks
• Renders still mostly hold up despite use of older models
• A ton of H-scenes with the main and side characters -- hard to go more than ~5 minutes without a scene of some sort
• Interesting story / premise

The Not-So-Good ()

• The main narrative arc had several chances to wrap up and the story seems to be spinning a bit just to extend the life of the game
• The web of characters has grown confusing over the game's lifetime
• The futa / trans content is not immediately clear and is somewhat unavoidable -- there are certain LIs that are not obviously identified as such and I progressed down romance paths I didn't want / intend to had I known (your mileage will vary)
• The MC doesn't have much of a personality beyond "young hung stud"

In its first few years of development, this had a compelling storyline and was one of the better sci-fi incest harem games; but more recent updates have muddled the plot without driving the story much closer to the finish.

So I wanted to give my two cents now This is a really nice game. It's completely different (positive) than all the other games! I'm only at Seasin 1 but it's a great story!!! Something like that makes it very exciting, keep it up . 5 stars from me since it doesn't exist anymore

I played the early version up to Episode 9 and thought it was a nice game and that it had some nice scenes. Well animated. Good story. Waited a solid 2 years and was not disappointed. At this point I can see this game going another 5-10 chapters. I feel it's a very good moment to start it. Recommend adding the Walkthrough mode.

Story: 8/10 The Story is pretty interesting to follow, not a lot of games with the Space Travel System, love it

Characters: 9/10 Lots of Character Developement and Plow twist Characters, also love the Alien Premise not just normal People. The Incest is also an Interesting Factor. Love Taboo Stories. The Girls are also really Good looking and iteresting. One thing that bothers me is the whole Thing about having both Genitals. I know there are some People that are into that kinda thing, but its not for me. if it wasnt for that def 10/10.

MC: 8/10 At first i thought he was just that generic nice guy from a lot of games, but Camron is actually really badass throughout the game.

Scenes: Pretty good animations and the Kiss scenes are also pretty good, actually showing the Kiss and not just a closeup of a girl with an open mouth.

give this game a chance. its definetly worth playing, some scenes can be a little weird, but its def worth playing.

All in all this game is a 8.5/10

So reading all of the other reviews, I have to agree with the general consensus, the story is not that strong. The writing is also not that strong in certain areas. There were some good parts, and being a captain of your own ship is cool and everything, but there were a lot of logic flaws in a lot of the events that happen throughout. The story and writing are definitely maybe the weakest elements in the game, and if you were hoping for some crazy unique story sorry it's not here. However, that all being said, the meat and potatoes of this game are gonna be the girls. Your "crew", if you will, are definitely the best part of the game because you can pursue them all. You can also pursue girls outside of your crew so it is a true harem game. It even has a taboo harem so that's nice. The girls all look hot, if a bit samey at times (the standard hairstyles with black eyeshadow look). However, I happen to think the MC looks awful. He genuinely looks like some doofus high school kid who is barely into high school. He looks nothing like a captain of the ship. Also, a few of the characters have different types of paths, such as sub or loving, though I do wish there was more choice in the matter. To put your slave Jade on her sub path, you have to be a douche to her. Why? Why do I have to yell at her and treat her poorly for her to be on the sub path? It just makes no sense. Same with Vess. Why do I have to treat her like shit to make her submissive? The other girls you don't have a choice in how you pursue them either, it's just do you want to be in a relationship with this girl or not. This game could definitely do with some more choices. This is especially true if you interact with characters who have a dick. You're either gonna suck that dick or jerk them off, you have no choice. There is no option to say nah I'm not touching that dick ever. Overall, this game isn't bad, but it's not great either. It really needed better writing and story, and way more choice in how you deal with said story. To make this giant alien filled universe and be the captain of your own spaceship and have so little choice in what you want to do is frankly terrible design.

One of the best games on here, easily in my top 3. What's not to love? Dope visuals, engaging world-building, an unusually well-developed plot, characters that are easy to like and care for, and scenes for days. Oh and the dev consistently produces the goods on time without exploiting patrons. The only thing I don't like is the MC's hair which looks like pubes but I can live with it considering everything else is great.

Overall it feels unlike the other top games on this site. Free from a lot of the dumb cliches of other games that seem more and more derivative of each other these days, this game goes in a new direction, finding its bearings in films/TV like Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, Firefly etc. Don't get me wrong, it's as much an adult VN as a space opera, but each chapter feels like it's doing something I haven't seen before in a VN, which is what I appreciate the most about this game.

I've been waiting to play this game for a long time and had high expectations because of its similarity to Mass Effect, but it was a big disappointment. The story was not interesting at all, it was just walls of text. Literally the dialogs in the game were endless, as if they were going on forever. On the other hand, it wasn't a branching story as the developer claimed, it was just a linear and boring visual novel. The renders start to look quite dated after a certain point. The developer who took the time to create such a sci-fi universe had a lot of successful things to look up to, and he ruined it with an incredibly bad journey story. The main character is very unlikeable and there is no other likable character After playing for a few hours and barely getting through the boring prologue, I gave up on the game.

Based on Season 1

A pretty cool sci-fi story , with great renders overall . Usually that kind of ever expanding harem does not know how to stop itself and use properly its cast (just see WVM as an example of that) ... and worse that kind of game usually rely on rehashing the same conversation and moral hangups .

This game did not feel like any of that ... you do have to wait for relationship to build up and start with characters , at various rate , but it does not feel dragged out and badly paced yet

One of my favorite VNs. Particularly the sisters are ridiculously beautiful and hot, making the incest totally believable. Music is also well above standard for these games. The only thing that bothered me is no option to end/disable a relationship you no longer want to be a part of.

Warning - spoilers.
EDIT: I just can't make it. This game is embarassingly boring. The epitome of mediocrity. Nothing stands out - shallow characters, forced drama, no humor, no mystery, no atmosphere, nothing.The only thing that is spot on is the name - Tales from Undending Void, empty, huge, meaningless and boring void.

This is a review of v0.17.

Tales is one of those rare AVNs which excels in every capacity. You want story? This is one of the best around. You want good characters? Tales has got a great diverse cast who are consistently seeing character development. Is the mc likable? Damn right; he's got a decent and unoffending model, and is confident and smart. You want visuals? While Tales doesn't quite match the highest modern standards of resolution, it still looks great, utilising fantastic art direction and beautifully designed models to make every shot look great. You want hot sex? You're in for a treat. You want music? Tales is one of the few AVNs to provide a strong soundscape to match each sequence.

Tales gives you a cinematic experience with its beautiful environmental renders, well-written cutaways to see what's happening with other characters, and generally strong dialogue and line-by-line writing.

One minor mistake is that the animations during sex scenes are often used for only one line of dialogue, and at most 3. The animations look good and we want to see them loop a few times, so don't immediately cut away to a static render, let us enjoy them while reading the well-written erotic description.

However there is one side-story which rubbed me so completely the wrong way that I almost brought my score down to 4 stars.

The world building in this is just a spectacular to behold. This is literally star wars in AVN style. The story is just as amazing as well. LIs are pretty likeable with their own unique personalities. This game and perverteer deserve more attention than any others out there.

So, I am a bit shocked at how high this game is rated. Like from an art style, it looks really great. From a story perspective, it is really bad. Like one of the first things is that you have a bad relationship with one of your sisters but when she gets to the academy you have a nice picture with her. It felt strange.

I dropped it after delivering some stuff to an alien planet. You get there and get toled the shipment is corrupted because you have a woman with you. To fix this you need to be punished and go to the pit. You say you will go and the rest of the team doesn't care. Like what? You don't ask what it is or what you will be doing. Like for all we knew it would have been a death match again a dragon.

But no it is a place underground with all women in them because the aliens made new religion that the surface is for men only. So, they need to stay and your punishment is that you need to fuck all the girls in the cave.

Yeah this was just stupid...

I had fun with this game. Lots of story and world building, lots of content. And choices for reasonable things to give you some influence on the story but not so much you drown or play a click simulator. This game really had the balance right for a VN.

Image quality en render quality is very good and it runs good without errors or annoying typo's or weird sentence buildup.

So yeah, would really recommend. Just look at the tags if these things are for you.

Art is ok, characters are unbelievable, save system is stupid (You cannot play newest version of the game without playing older version). Game is way too big for that amount of content. There is few pretty faces, but that's it about this game. Perhaps if it were more user friendly, it would get more stars

Looking for beautiful art, an interesting story and aliens? This is the right place to come. The incest part is covered good enough for me to ignore it, so I will give the whole 5 stars. Absolutely recommended!

This is an excellent game, and has easily become one of my favourite VN's that I've ever played. Perverteer is probably the best at writing hot – but believable – talk during sex. And also one of the best at doing buildup and hinting at future exciting sexual scenarios. No one else does setup and payoff with as much mastery, and is as consistent at never drifting into cockblock/frustration territory while doing it, as the dev/writer for TFTUV.

As for the overall VN, it tells an interesting and compelling story (with obvious influences from Mass Effect, Dune, and other space-based sci-fi, plus a unique mix of fantasy elements that I hope might be a hint at a future sword, sorcery, and sex type VN from this dev). The code/paths are well tested and straightforward to play, and I didn't run into any bugs apart from some annoying variable setting regarding achievements (not a problem unless you played early versions like I did, and tried to use those original saves). The music is top tier, and perfectly conveys intimacy during sex scenes, tension during action scenes, or a sense of the unknown as the reader is introduced to alien worlds and races. Characterization is well done, and each individual has a unique personality, with believable interactions, conflicts, and growth over the course of the story. The pacing is damn near perfect, and even though the dev can write some great prose, conversations never feel long-winded like in too many other VN's I've played. Also, kudos to the dev for giving the player a couple of interesting and non-rival (!) male friends to pal around with on the journey, which is a breath of fresh air to see in an adult VN.

There is really good use of kinks throughout the game as well (scenes with domination and watersports content are two that really stood out for me) to add extra spice to many of the encounters. The one problem I am finding in general with the game is that there are perhaps too many love interests, which can feel at times like it takes away from focusing on the much more compelling core characters. However, that isn't a big enough issue to not give this a five star rating, and recommend it without reservation to others to play.

Quite a few positives with this. I first played this when it was on chapter 7 then pretty much forgot about it to be honest. I decided to revisit it and glad that I did.

The visuals are very good, big leap ahead from Sisterly Lust.

The writing is solid. You can poke holes in some of the plot if you try but for me I didn't see anything glaring. It's pretty original and doesn't rely on too many V/N tropes which sometimes can't really be avoided depending on the story line.

The Dev does a pretty good job of not forcing things on you but allowing for choices.

While there is plenty of lewd stuff the Dev managed to sprinkle in some scenes that weren't just lewd but also sexy. Especially first time with Aven, Lilly and Nadya. The scenes for Aven and Lilly were realistic for a girl's first time sex and the dialog as well. Often when a girl in a V/N is a virgin the scene is created like she's a pro.

One downside is there were actually more scenes with side characters than needed which often come at the expense of scenes with main girls or more time to flesh out characters, MCs included.

Another is while I wouldn't call the MC a dumb character the handling of the girls wasn't smart. Perhaps for the sake of extra drama? In any case if he had handled things better there would have been less conflict between the girls.

Another positive is that for me there is multiple play through possibilities.

Mostly well-written VN with good graphics, music and animations with some notable plot/consistency deficiencies.

I strongly dislike incest and thus played without the patch - there are several notable plot issues in this case. By all indications, these would not be there if one were to apply the patch.
This is especially annoying as the author has created a character setup that can theoretically work well with and without incest - they simply do not take the required care to make it work properly in both cases.