Ren'Py - Completed - Tame It! [v1.1.2] [Manka Games]

This game isn't garbage, but it's still bad.
The main problem is the main problem of I think 75% of the 2D games. The developper made it a porn game, but wants to do an actual game(most likely to fill content between each update without having to draw).
So it's bad as a porn game, and it's bad as a survival game.

The fact you use smileys is interesting, but they use the "common" ones. So that means each dialogue looks like a youtube clickbait title. it doesn't help feeling anything for the characters.
It has another default. it's useful for simple action, not for more complex ones. Dor exemple to chose the difficulty, it's with the tooltips enabled I was able to understand. It will not be the case of everyone, but I thin eventually everyone will have one moment where they will not understand and try thing blindly.
And the other problem is when you don't know what to do next good luck with it.

the beggining was nice, until you realise you spend 2 hours with only the porn scene at the beggining, and it's only at this moment you understand this game is to fuck a catgirl, but in 7 hours..., maybe.
Personally I'm stuck and with no advice and no walkthrough I don't think I will care finishing it.
You can skip the first minigames but when you'll be stuck with the catgirl you have to do some of them, and they are awful.

I think it could be enjouable if you have enough patience, personnally I've seen so many porn games like this I don't bother anymore.

Pros:
~Absolutely gorgeous art. Both for the characters and the backgrounds
~Semi-unique plot
~Music is decent

Neutrals:
~Emoji art used for character conversation instead of words. While it is a novel idea and does allow for more character states amongst the cast. It is very difficult to build personality and characterization with it. Its cool that it is universally understood but it makes the characters far more shallow than they should be.
~Mini-games are hit or miss- but at least you can skip them.

This game deserves a lot more than most give credit. Completely original concept and unique art style and story telling. There is quite a bit of grind, but that is by no means a stopper. I gave this game a chance from the earlier versions and now this game develops nicely. Definitely recommend.

It is strange for me to see low marks on this game.

The game has a number of significant advantages:
1. Original art style
2. Excellent system with emoji. it's just brilliant to play! You may not be able to read at all !!! Ha ha ha!
3. Acceptable crafting and mining mechanics. Certainly not worse than others.
4. Simpotny heroes. And a fat leopard.

But there is one drawback:
The game is still in development !!! When is the final release ?!

Far, far too grindy for very little reward.

Also, using pictograms to tell a story? Sorry, my brain works fine and I feel offended that I have to play a game who requires no reading to understand the story. And sometimes, those pictograms make no sense.

Two stars, and that's only because of the nice artwork. The rest of the game is one big pile of crap.

Game should already be almost done. It says 0.9.0 but its more like a 0.0.2. You only deal with that purple catgirl for most of the game. Its very boring and grindy for very little reward. At best you got the catgirl teasing you, for most of the game.

was enjoying this game up until i caught cat lady.. this "figure the emoji" stuff is ridiculous.. my prefix (assuming hint???) obviously not. just picking random emojis on an ever growing list.. sorry stupid concept that killed it for me, even the maybe sort of hint system in the responses (???) is a joke.. went from 4 star based on gameplay and progression to a generous 2.. i like puzzles but i like to have an idea of whats going on and have an idea of what direction i should be going in to solve it.. this just seems mostly random.

This is a really sexy, cute and charming game (which you don't have to be a furry to enjoy), and its main flaws are in the process of being worked out.

Playing as the survivor of a plane crash on a deserted island, the gameplay combines survival/resource management mechanics with the gradual befriending and seduction of a wild catgirl. You're basically trying to tame a cat who also happens to be a sexy girl. At the same time you're trying to find out if the female pilot also survived the crash.

This "taming" is the heart of the game, and feels quite rewarding. You do have to work for the progress you make, but it's not too tedious, and you get payoffs all along the way. And the effort and the twist and turns of the story succeed in making you bond with the catgirl, so that the connection becomes meaningful.

The graphics are first-rate, and the animations pretty decent (using a combination of frame-by-frame changes and Live2D stretch/bend transformations). The models are hot, and there are a number of nice lewd scenes, all the way to full intercourse. I like that the sex scenes are interactive, though they can be a bit fiddly, so the option to just have them play out (in some cases only available after "winning" them once) is welcome.

In earlier versions, the game suffered from a few problems.

First, the lewd scenes were limited, as you didn't yet get very far with the catgirl. This is no longer an issue.

Second, the mini games for hunting, fishing, learning, etc. were very sluggish on some platforms, making them extremely tedious. This has been greatly improved in the latest version (although the "click the falling objects" mini game is still too time-consuming), and they're now quite playable.

Third, the survival and resource mechanic could get a bit grindy, particularly the first time you play when you haven't figured out the best strategy. On the highest difficulty level it was almost unwinnable at one point. The devs are constantly rebalancing to improve the flow, and I feel it's now fairly forgiving, at least on normal difficulty. (However, it's still annoying how few actions are possible per day. Some more interesting things to do at night, particularly in the early game, might help.)

Finally, the big one: the game communicates entirely in emoji. I don't think the devs fully realize how big of a hurdle this is for many players. (Replaying it, with advance knowledge of what the game is trying to convey at each point, is a totally different, much smoother experience.) If you're not fluent in emoji as well as the custom grammar and symbols invented for the game, even the simplest sentence becomes a riddle to interpret, and you end up spending more time and mental energy solving rebuses than actually playing. It's also very easy to miss some instruction or hint because you don't understand what the game is saying, or because you were tired of decoding the messages and skipped past some line of visual gobbledygook.

Thankfully they are now reportedly testing a version with English text, and at that point this should be an easy recommend to all players.

What a charming game. I am always smiling after playing some. I really love that the dev tries to do something (VERY) different with this game.

So having said that, this isn't a standard porn game, i.e. a barely coherent delivery system for lewd scenes. If that is what you are looking for, you won't find it here.

It's a puzzle game with a bit of resource management and (entertaining) mini games. It also has some lewd scenes, but that's not the core of it. If you enjoy it for what it is - an actual game, you'll find a lot to love here.

The emote speech system is super innovative and really cute. It takes a while to get into it, but I really love its implementation.

Try it, but give it a moment to grow on you when you do. You won't regret it.

[v0.7.1] Game is interactive and a bit fun grinding, the DEV's are active in comments on questions and bugfixing. Love the story on using Emotes. Models looks great, little ecchi scene yet promising concept. will look forward on the next updates.

I like the idea of emoji for "universal language". The art is very good and the possibility to set the difficulty level is usefull. I would like 2 routes well guided, the one of the pilot women and the one of the cat women.

I rate this average solely based on my preference. I generally do like a game with well written dialogues & actual story. I require it to feel attracted to a certain character otherwise I just view these character as a sex doll with beauty and nothing else.

However,
Are you the type who don't like to read at all? This is for you

Are you into unique 3D art ? This is for you

Good art ? This is it

Do you like grindy game ? This is for you

Do you like story ? This isn't for you.

Like crafting things? This is for you

Thanks,
ILW

This game includes very charming and attractive character design, a novel approach to communication, and moderately entertaining survival, crafting, and puzzle systems.

Some renders seem a little weaker, mostly during the minigames, but the overall aesthetic is very strong. The pilot character is quite alluring in the style presented.

Quite looking forward to each release. Thanks, dev!

Fun game, the grind has been balanced since the first couple of versions. Art is top notch. I really like the character design for the cat girl. Got used to the emoji communication scheme and it works for the game.

One of the important things that sets adult games apart from other genres is the combination of visuals and dialogue. To have hand crafted visuals along with dialogue that shows you the thoughts of the characters and really lets you connect with the world. Dialogue itself can carry a game as long as its written well enough. Plenty of games forgo instant pleasure and instead decide to craft a well thought-out world with interesting characters and a great story

This game has totally decided to cut off half of that. Instead of well crafted dialogue it has chosen to instead speak in Emojis. So instead of well crafted dialogue that builds on everything else and compliments the art, you have hieroglyphics that you have to decipher. Its like looking at a middle schoolers text history. It makes the actual sex scenes so absolutely boring. So what benefits could this possibly bring? Well according to them its to make the game universally understood. So apparently its to make them more money. However in my opinion, like this whole review, its only made the game universally subpar

The gameplay is subpar. The early game is boring, after that its constant grind. The minigames are generally pretty bad, some can be skipped which is nice, some cant.

The story on its own is a standard porn plot, not great not bad, but when you combine it with a lack of dialogue its kind of bad. You crash a plane by having sex with the pilot and end up on an island with her and other inhabitants.

The art is fantastic however and is the main redeeming quality. Its unique and is honestly a breath of fresh air. However, art alone cant carry a game

Despite the extremely stupid intro this actually shapes up into a pretty good game. It takes a bit, but the emoji text grows on you (helped along by not trying to use it to portray full conversations after you're stranded) and actually works in the game's favor when you're struggling to communicate with the catgirl.

The art is quite good, with a lot of unique CGs for different events. I'm a bit worried about the number of assets required slowing down development, but there's a decent amount of content regardless. My only real complaint is that faces can look wonky at some angles, especially for the catgirl.

As for the gameplay, I saw the complaints about grind here so immediately turned it down to the lowest difficulty and that seemed to generally smooth things out to a point where it's bearable and is generally effective at immersing you in the process of slowly building up your island life. I do think that this should be the default difficulty because the gameplay doesn't exactly stand up by itself. This is perfectly fine since it's serving as an effective vehicle for the porn, but some of the developer comments make me worried that they're not aware of this.

The minigames are decently coded but the material harvesting ones are pretty boring, though at least they're skippable. The ones about interacting with the catgirl aren't exactly fun, but I do like how they actually made me fumble about in building a relationship with her instead of everything just being a straightforward perform X task Y times to get the pussy.

Overall, this game is worth your time so push past the intro, turn down the difficulty, and enjoy. Hopefully the devs listen to feedback because the flaws are fixable and they're on the verge of something great once they round out the sharp edges.

While I don't find it worthy of a 5 star, it certainly isn't worthy of such a plethora of 1 star reviews... it's a decent game with good art style that tries something different. While you may not agree with this, it certainly isn't deserving of such harsh critics...

The art looked interesting but then I downloaded the game and had to decode emoji hieroglyphics, who decides to use EMOJIS ONLY instead of Text, and the plot was kinda dumb too
They crash onto the island because you fuck the pilot while she supposed to be FLYING the plane, the game overall had no logic I couldn't play that long

Art looked interesting, but between the use of emoji's in place of dialogue, lack of content for the amount of effort required, and just plain bad minigames this is a hard pass.
Better off getting a CG rip.

Artwork is great. This is just basic skeleton of the game for now. That's great for start alpha.

It needs much more meat and another body tissues to become really excellent survival erotic game. Author made great thing by removing language completely. Hope to see the game not only about surviving and grind, but about starting new tribe on this island eventually.