Ren'Py - The Awakening [v0.4.6d] [SLim Games]

Now I understand why this game is 7 years old and still not even halfway done. Reading through the update logs, it keeps getting reworked and expanded with way too many minigames. There are so many that even drinking water, taking a bath, opening doors, or walking have become minigames )

Character models: 3/5
Cutscene Sx: 2/5
Storyline: :v I think the creator planned something deep for the story later on, but I’m not too convinced — 2/5

Conclusion: If you just want something to “grind” time with, this isn’t a bad choice.

Advice for the developer: Stop adding so many minigames for every single action. Focus on the cutscene Sx — especially during the output moments

This game should be renamed to: Death by Minigames.
It is loads of minigames even when i choose the no minigames option.
I still tried for a while, and i ended up just giving up since it's rather lame in it's storytelling with incoherent dialogue and story progression and that with minigames means nice graphics are not enough to keep it interesting.
Then there are crappy animated scenes that you can't even skip through that finally just made me quit this dumpster fire.

Hey, there are some good things about this game but I finished what was available, came back after 5 years and there's like...one scene I hadn't seen with the two main girls. There was also a rework of the art assets about 5 years ago where some of the old art was left in place and it still hasn't been updated.

Of all the games that are never being finished, this one is never being finished the most. Smh.

When the game was released in the old days I had high hopes for some rapey, 'evil' corruption route, but the whole corruption power from the fairy barely plays any role any more and the game has turned - like so many before- in a more or less generic vanilla sh*t show, apart from some super slight bdsm. Someone wanted to copy the mom from badbobbysaga but they didn't quite get it and the reworked mom model is hot but she's just too young for that role (looks more like 27-30) instead of at least 35. The voice acting doesnt fit the situations at all which is why I think this game has the 'paranormal' tag. In conclusion I guess it's an OK fap when you want to see some nice renders, but I would recommend to just skip through the text and save yourself the lifetime.

I've been trying to figure out what bothers me about this game, and I've decided that the key thing is that the MC has no personality. It's really a pretty linear story with choices being there simply to move the action forward (or not). The rework improved the pace and some of the graphics, but didn't change the basic fact that it's a linear story about a guy with fairy who eventually has sex with some women. (yawn)

Review as of v0.4.6b

Is this game a bit of a mess? Sure. You start playing a newer unvoiced prologue. Then you jarringly proceed to much older renders, where the character models don't even look the same and there's voice acting. Eventually you get back to the same render quality as the beginning, and there's random holiday content sprinkled in too.

All that said, I do think this is a good game. The story (like the game) is a bit all over the place (you have amnesia, there's a fairy following you that begs you to fuck every woman in sight, you work in a mailroom?), but if you just want some hot characters and lewd scenes, then you will get that.

Maybe I'm biased as this was one of the earliest AVNs I tried. I feel the rating here is a bit too low especially since I've seen worse games with higher ratings.

Unfortunately the positives (beautiful girls, anal scenes) can't compensate the very many negatives. So, overall, a disappointing game with little content, especially little sex, and mostly boring vanilla scenes. Beautiful girls and some hot anal scenes. But frustrating mechanics and weak story, both of which keep changing directions drastically.

Positives:

• Beautiful girls!
• Anal. Few scenes (only 4 I think) but at least they're good, some of them go deep. Probably the highlight of this game!
• Animations. Nothing fancy, but good to have them at least. The penetration animations looks wrong though.
• Mind control. But apparently the dev forgot about this after a couple hours playtime.
• Taking a girl's anal virginity before her vaginal virginity. Hot! (Would be nice if you could optionally just keep fucking her ass instead of being forced to take her vaginal virginity later. Options!)
• A few deepthroat scenes.
• Sleep creep activities (but very limited).
• Blackmail, but unfortunately just a tiny bit and then the game makes the material backed up to the cloud just "lost". (Lazy writing)
• Customizable relationships and names (at least with the mod).
• The fairy is quite cute when she's not being obnoxious. Her anal scene is good. Nice outfits.
• MC gets to dominate a couple of girls. Pretty hot. One calls MC "master" (but, as always with this game, super short scene and one time only).

Negatives:

• Only few sex scenes.
• The game isn't even half finished and this is 7 years after the initial release! All the quests just stop in the middle, with several girls not even having sex once. Maybe 7-8 hours of content when doing everything.
• Blueballing!! So, so much and constant blueballing. The game several times really makes you think that this time, finally, you'll be having sex, but no again it was just misleading. You literally have the tip of the dick inside her but then she stops it. Again!?!
• The "choices" are not choices at all. It's one way to progress, if you "choose" the alternative either you can't progress the game or there's literally a game over.
• Almost only vanilla, clean, boring sex. Except for a couple of anal scenes which are nice.
• Little content overall, just around 6-7 hours.
• In the rare case that there is a sex scene it's always very short. You can sometimes change the view but there's no interaction.
• After a couple hours playtime there's basically no longer any corruption mechanic you can use. You just don't get the option anymore and it's not even discussed.
• Constantly changing game mechanics and they're frustrating. The game gets worse and worse the longer you play.
• Sex scenes are a several times aborted half way through and without letting the MC cum. Big fail.
• Poorly written story and dialogue. Highly unbelievable behavior and reactions from most characters.
• Stupid scenario at the school with what is essentially a comic book villain. E.g. first day is like a caricature of high school bullying. Tricking, knocking unconscious, and stripping the MC and everyone is totally powerless to do anything. Like, come on, this is some extreme version of an outdated cliché.
• Often gives "choices" that have exactly one button so... not a choice. Why do this and make me click that button then? Happens throughout the game.
• Very bad and short orgasm "scenes". The sex is just suddenly over and you see 1 render of the girl with a little cum in her pussy/mouth. That's unsatisfying.
• MC is an idiot and pushover. The story sometimes acknowledges that but it doesn't help. So he's one of these insecure, incompetent, pushovers that is prevalent in adult games. He can't help but say the wrong thing, insult girls, tell the mom she's old, etc.
• Voice required. In the newest content the dev on purpose doesn't include text and instead requires you to listen to voice lines. This is utterly stupid as I always play porn games on mute.
• Femdom. Impossible to avoid femdom if you don't want to quit both the entire teacher AND sister story lines. Progression depends on submitting to femdom multiple times.
• Game over during the first sex scene with the mom. Annoying since the only way forward is blueballing.
• Refuses to show MC's face.
• QTE.
• No story coherence. Events happen out of order.
• Forced foot jobs.
• MC pursues girls but when they actually want to have sex he's suddenly questioning that or outright saying they shouldn't do it.
• After the prologue the character models suddenly look totally different and bad for a while.
• The girl offers MC her ass but he instead takes her pussy. No choice either.
• Girl sucks MC's dick but MC's response "oh uh, what are you doing? I uh...but, uh are you sure?" Damn, why do devs write MC's that are idiots?
• Bugs. E.g. game refers to having blackmail material on the teacher when that has not yet happened.
• I disabled minigames but still have to play some minigames.
• Juliet, Margaret, and Nao/Mao have each just two quest steps. There's almost no content.
• Lazy writing. One example: the blackmail material MC had both on his phone and backed up to the cloud gets deleted and corrupted.
• Confused game style, a mix of sandbox and straight up VN and then suddenly minigames (even if you disable minigames).
• Poor attempts at humor and references.
• I play muted anyway but the game has awful voice acting.
• During anal scenes the MC instead wants to fuck vaginally. (Why not simply give us the choice at the very least, like in other games?)
• The only adult game I've ever seen that requires you to use a condom for a scene. Wtf?!
• Again, for the record... BLUEBALLING. This game is a new low, it's terrible how much blueballing it has.

(version 0.4.6b, incl. Halloween and Christmas specials)

For a game that’s been around for so many years, the content is sparse. It’s like the dev doesn’t even know what they want with their own game; it went from story-driven to a super time-wasting sandbox that’s unplayable without a walkthrough and has all the flaws that (at least for me) make the format infuriating: interconnected quests, like it or not you have to do X character’s route to progress with Y’s, choices that change absolutely nothing, and all the LIs are forced on the player (so what’s the point of a sandbox then?). And the one I hate the most: to progress, you have to talk to an LI at a specific hour on a specific day, no matter if the MC lives with their mom and sister—you just wait for that exact moment.
The only redeeming feature I could find is the beautiful and polished graphics... Honestly, it’s basically a kinetic novel stuck in a tedious sandbox format.

PROS
+ Prologue, and latest parts of the game has good visual quality, and style, especially Abby's model looks pretty hot. Along with these it has good animation quality, and physics as well.

CONS
- Main story is pretty much empty even after 7 years, and other contens/stories aside from the main story are either cliche, cringe, nonsense, short, or unexisted like the main story.
- Most characters are not likeable for certain reasons, biggest one is they are having terrible intrudiction scenes, and getting ''character development'' later on, and get better, but since you already saw how terrible they were before it doesn't change anything, you still disslike them, and don't feel like invest your time on their path, and stories, like Klara or Liz. Second one is most of them paths/stories being poorly-written, like the whole Maid Cafe, and the Cat Maid thing Linda's path/story has. And lastly we have characters with zero likeability, like Jim, in fact considering MC is already full of problems the game having someone like Jim makes zero sense as well.
- Some paths feels wasted like Abby's path, her whole path is almost about getting good grades with progressing Klara's path, having two reward scene, then going into a date, then becoming lovely dovely like that, there is almost no development at all, in fact right after scene the game this time the game ask you to progress with Margaret path to progress her path, so her path is almost like not even her path at all.
- MC being out of shape, weak, can't catch up with walking people, etc, is lasted too long as a gag, wasn't funny or anything at first either, but it should have gone away after he accured some power, etc, it didn't, and lasted longer than it should, and he even got beaten by fat old dude at some point.
- Naming, and relationship system we have doesn't work like it should, because the relationship you have with Abby & Liz gets called by other people as well, like Margaret calling Abby with the relationship you written her to have with the MC, etc.
- Choices seems not that matters since in the ''panty'' convo even if you act decent you still get that ''talk'' by Abby, and whatever you choice everything ends at same point as well.
- The game is really messy, visualls changes (Prologue has same quality as latest parts of the game, right after it looks terrible, then slightly gets better), writing being of (prologue, after that, middle parts, and latest parts of game has quite different writing), plot holes (prologue has lots of changes made to the story, but they didn't change those stuff in actual game, so you keep seeing plot-holes), some parts of the game having voiced lines, some not, it's especially weird since it's sandbox and if you don't do some of characters quest until some point even at middle parts of the game you can see voiced lines out of nowhere, etc.
- The game has only 99 save page, and it's not enough, like all renpy games it should have 999+ pages.
- There is option to close minigames in the menu, but it doesn't close the button mashing, basketball, jumping, or lockpick minigames.
- Liz's design is one of overused assets you can found almost anywhere, and it looks bad, in prologue we saw her younger version with different hair, etc, and she was way better.
- Especially the part right after the prologue, and middle parts of the game until the visual style becoming like remade prologue characters has quite bad facial expressions, and even at latest parts of the game facial expressions still looks poor.
- There is weird nonsense gag about not showing the MC's face, in fact they went soo move forward with this obsession there are even scenes with we saw his full body, and his head with some weird light, etc, and it's looks ridicilous.
- For some weird reason, maybe a gag every worker has same model/character, she looks great, but it's just illogical.
- X-ray makes the HUD unhidable, and makes the some of X-ray scene pointless since you can't see the whole scene or can't take screenshots, etc.
- Placement of hint button is pretyy annoying, it's at top right part, meanwhile other buttons like map, etc, at right middle, hing should be there as well, not to forget that pressing hints not enough, you need to choice the character you wanna get hint as well, so maybe instead of adding a text info to the screen when you press the hint, and staying there until you click again their name at hint menu, etc, could be great for convience.
- The sandbox doesn't feel like needed at all since you can't do anything whenever you want, characters stories are tied to each other, so it happens in a way you are forced to do anyway, there is no freedom coming from sandbox, even if you want to focus one character like Abby you will find yourself can't progress with their path, and instead playing another characters path for hours just so you can open their path's next even, so there is only tedious, time wasting, and confusing parts of sanbox exist here. And some events, story dialogues, etc, are missplaced stuff doesn't make sense like hearing MC talking about Miss Browns photos he had, meanwhile you actually not seen the scene if you didn't gone to school, or the scene Abby talks about MC working at post office, meanwhile you probably didn't or the scene he says he buying lockpicks, and maid outfits, etc, with his money, meanwhile you didn't bought anything at all. So the whole sandbox thing is quite poorly-made, prologue was visual novel instead of sandbox, and it was way better.
- The job in club, navigation, and menus, etc, are terrible, and very annoying to play.
- The game is 7 years old, and that's way more than enough a game to be finished, but the currently the game is not even close to being finished, in fact a lot of characters don't even have actual content at all like Klara, Mao & Nao.

VERDICT
Honestly the game feels like had some potential, but at this point it's just wasted, and it will never be a good game, aside from visuals at prologue, and the latest parts of the game this game doesn't have single PRO I can say, and that's just impressive, so it's not worth playing or wasting your time.

Good general story similar to many others but has certain details like the x-ray, menu navigation, scenes, and quality that give it something worth playing. Has a balance of good scenes/quality and story telling. Definitely waiting for the next update.

This game is really good compare to others that I have played, the story pretty good also the milf are top teir mostly Miss klara brown who is probably my favorite milf in porn imo. I also played this game twice because the scene and story were just amazing. The only down side is that it short and there no updates. I really wished they add much more scene and the story to be much long. Overall it was amazing game but wish there was more klara brown

The first thing I would start with is the inaccurate release date
given on F95zone saying Version: 0.4.5b release date is 2025-01-14,
when Version: 0.4.5b been around since at least November of 2024 .

Now onto the game, without the walkthrough mod the game
will be pretty much unplayable, since there are no hints given
without it and you won't have any idea what you are supposed
to do, so that mod is a must. And the mod made by Shawn Chapp
is really good and helpful.

The game itself is fun, but it's one of those games where
sex often doesn't take place or is stopped in favor of a hand job or
foot job or something similar, this is a problem as the fairy in the
game needs love energy which must happen from the MC
penetrating the vagina with his penis, something else is
sometimes the MC penetrates a vagina and the game developer
forgot to connect it as love energy to the fairy, as in the case of
the Librarian where the MC penetrates vaginally the Librarian
but has no love energy to give the fairy, because the game
developer forgot to put it in the game.

Another issue I had was how sometimes in the game there is
audio for the voices and sometimes not, and it's random
like one scene text with no audio voices, next scene text
with audio voices, next scene back to text with no audio voices,
next scene text with audio voices, and it does this repeatedly.
It's like the maker of the game can't decide if he wants text only
or text with audio voices, and keeps changing his mind repeatedly,
it gets annoying.

As for the good, the characters are all drawn nicely,
the fairy concept is fun, the sister is a gem in the game
[meaning she is a very likeable character] , and obviously
you want to learn the mysteries of the MC's past.

I think the game has potential 3.5 stars

Review of [v0.4.5b]

Click and Point game where you arrive at a house and try to fuck everything that moves. Plus there is a good reason for you to do it, if you don't you WILL DIE!

I find the story very interesting, you wake up in the hospital after an accident and you don't remember anything but step by step you have to realize things.

I don't personally like the fantasy part much, although it's not bad either.

PROS

• Excellent Renders with high quality
• Good Animations with good movement and SOUND
• Very hot sexual scenes with audio and voice acting
• Voice acting is nice and makes the scenes HOT
• The part of helping your classmates and others is very good

CONS

• From the end of the game the voice acting turns off
• There hasn't been a real update in a while...

RATING :

Content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sound: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Renders: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Characters: ⭐⭐⭐
Animations: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Final conclusion: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ GOOD GAME with VOICE ACTING AND FREE ROAM RECOMMENDED

I hate to give such a low score as i really wanted to like this game but i couldn't even get through it given how bad it is.

The main story is nonexistent and the small story arcs don't make any real sense, the bully story is a perfect example,
The MC's attitude and personality are like the choices all over the place, the main story has him as a white knight which is ok some of the time but a lot of it makes no sense like the Linda tripping incident, after being humiliated publicly by her he then offers and does her help while at the same time he is angry at Jim for humiliating him privately, double standards are not a good look for an MC and finally you have the totally out of character optional "choices" that make him even worse.

As bad as the MC is the main character problems come from the horrible LI's, they are rude, aggressive, controlling, deceitful, selfish, a straight up bully, honestly i cant think of a single positive trait any of them showed.

The sandbox is very badly done, not only is it once again completely unnecessary but it makes everything out of order as events you haven't done are mentioned in another girls story line giving you mini spoilers throughout the game.

Choices let you at least skip stuff at the start but once you enter the sandbox part all of that is over as you are forced to play girls routes even if you hate them and no matter what they don't change the MC's attitude, he still wants and will be nice to them regardless of any choices.

The two redeeming features of the game are the totally amazing art quality which is second to none and the quality of the game which puts professional VN's to shame.

I really wanted to keep playing but i couldn't find a reason, no interesting story, bad characters i don't care about with no mystery behind them as you can see them naked at anytime, fake choices and a really bad sandbox that constantly gives minor spoilers.

Story 0/5 (good start but disappears)
Sex 4/5 (very nice)
Characters 0/5 (simply horrible)
Art 5/5 (amazing quality)
Choices 0/5 (fake)
Kinks 1/5 (one)

This ia perfect Sandbox game, with most of its stopryline left in dev limbo. The best part about this game is its uniques way of player interaction during sex scenes that uses users mouse to adjust pace and angle. and the renders of this game is exequite.

I just hope there was something much more to write about, because as of now I can't give this uncompleted empty game moire than 4

this is one of those games that is is better to play than just to watch the gallery!! playing the game and knowing the lore makes the sex scenes better

evreytime this game update i only watch gallery and jerkoff and this time i tried playing it through and god damm didnt know playing the game and knowing the lore makes the hotscenes much hotter and better

As the developer replaces some of the older content with newer, I become less satisfied with this game, and I believe the game is getting worse. The newer content has better models and animation, but it's a kinetic novel. The older content feels like playing a game. The newer content often has a single button to push which, whatever it says, just means "continue". It really looks like the only reason the dev is focusing on the looks over the play is that play is more difficult and multiple paths require a different more advanced coding skill set than a linear script does.

Not bad. Would give 3.5 stars if I could. The premise is fun. The models are hot. The animations are hit or miss. The scenes have some interesting mechanics that I don't see elsewhere. Also they flow pretty well.

The parts I don't like is the sandbox structure of the game makes everything feel disjointed, and I don't get much sense of a story here. The characters are generic and the updates have been so infrequent, so I end up forgetting them when it's time to play the new content. The saving grace here is the journal that logs the main character events you've seen and provides hints on what to do next.

Should have the kinetic novel tag. Likes to pretend you have choices, you can choose the choice that you like (usually the more rational choice) then it will force you to make the other choice anyway leading to a completely irrational choice from the protagonist that's just annoying and pointless. Unfortunate because the graphics are legitimately pretty good but far too infuriating to play.

Okay, I went through all the content that is in the game at the moment. It took a week.

What can I say?
Overall, the game is not bad, but far from the best I've played.

In some places I laughed like crazy at some situations and jokes.
In some places I caught cringe.

There is a lot of content in the game and it is quite sad that after such a long development time, apparently not even half was finished. A real long-term project.

You can clearly identify moments that were originally different, but then were redone.
It looks like it was put together from scraps. For example, I'm sure the beginning was changed. But that's not the point.

One possible problem is the unhurried pace of the story. This won't suit everyone.
This is the case when you don’t want to jerk off to a porn game. The intensity of the 18+ content is simply not enough to make the player cum.

Therefore, I would give either 3+ or 4-
It really takes a lot of time to complete and I can’t say that it fully pays off.

Also, we play as a MC who is a bit of an asshole. The game encourages lying, manipulation, and dirty deeds. It doesn't require you to be adequate. It is made in such a way that you, on the contrary, act dishonestly and ugly.
Normally - this aspect of games doesn't make me uncomfortable. But specifically here it didn't really appeal to me and directly resonated with me. Because I would have liked to do things differently in some situations, but I realized that in that case - I would lose something. So the game, in order to unlock all the content, forces you to act not the way you want, but the way the author wanted.

The “elections without choice” also made me laugh. At any stage, you can simply press one button to go back and select a different answer. So all these "wrong" choices in games like this are just a rudiment. They don't work. Who in their right mind would deliberately ignore the opportunity to go back and continue the game, choosing a less successful path?

Considering the above, in this case, I see the point in making the game more like a visual novel.