Ren'Py - The Big Beyond [v0.08 Fix] [Tjop]

The Big Beyond [v0.08 Fix]

good but not really


art 4.5/5
story 2.5/5
character/design 3.5/5
sex scene 2/5
sound 4.5/5
vibe 2/5
overall 3.1/5

art really good art

story meh nothing interesting happend

character/design good but i fell i look at same person they look alike

sex scene not good but there is animation i guss

sound i love BGM not annoying even tho is repeating and sound effect are okay too

vibe i felt like shi while playing after 20 min download the cheat to see if anything good happend but no

okay game with good art and sound but boring story and bad gameplay

Not a horrible game by any means, but there's nothing really exceptional about it and it's FULL of bugs.

Firstly and most crucially, I met unexpected errors constantly. Hindering gameplay by virtue of how easy they are to get. Go on the wrong tile at the wrong time of day (which appears to be any part that's possible) and BLAMO- Error screen. You can obviously rollback, but it happens so frequently that I'd call it a major flaw.

Secondly, the core gameplay (or atleast an aspect of it, I am of course referring to the exploration portion) is so sluggish it's ridiculous. Walk a few tiles? HERES A POPUP. (I don't hate the popups in concept, but for them to have the ability to occur more than once every day is simply silly) Encounter a random battle? HERES A POPUP. (Similar to the first reason, but can affect almost any movement) It's just so much for what you're able to do. Also I got a decent amount of lag at moments and I wasn't sure if that was my computer or me for not decrypting the files.

Thirdly, the scenes are bugged and progression can be bugged as well. My first runthough got softlocked right at the beginning (not sure why) and when unlocking the gallery, scenes which you've seen already don't appear. That isn't even to mention the issues of lag I was having, but atleast I can blame that on not unzipping before use.

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Those were major gripes, here are my personal.

The selection of characters is so small and lacks a variety in body type, it seems to me that there only seems to be three body types and the vast majority of characters are the curvy-big-boobed ladies. That's not necessarily a flaw, there's differences, I just wished for more. Which leads to my second point.

The experience itself was quite small- I don't see an abandoned tag, so I'm not exactly sure why after years of development there's only a handful of characters. I understand that art takes time, that coding takes time, that doing it alone can be unfeasible or atleast extremely difficult. But man oh man was I disappointed with how much you could do. Leading to my next issue-

The H scenes were mediocre. This is another point down to personal taste, but I genuinely believe the scenes could be vastly improved by two simple changes. Firstly, character moan sound effects could easily make it hotter and more engaging. Secondly, transitions between phases (especially the finishing phase) could make a smoother and sexier experience. The art also wasn't always up to my taste for those scenes (kinda looking like paper cutouts being pushed into eachother) but that's to be expected for the most part.

Finally, Navigation at times can be confusing. There are optional arrows which can be added in, to show choices to make; but sometimes the perspective of the shot is rather unhelpful for story progression - i.e. the frame when you leave your house. Sometimes the game will punish you for taking a quicker way back- i.e. travelling to the city from the exploration at night forcing you to pay a fee to sleep. Also the inclusion of wasd controls for the first map, isn't available in the second map. It's just either confusing or deliberately obtuse at moments.

However, despite all that. The experience is straightforward in a good way at moments, and the art isn't horrendous and relatively easy on the eyes compared to other titles. Also the map minigame, although annoying at times, was a nice change of pace from the regular game. (but I do wish there were more mechanical differences between background changes and more dungeons available with some other type of minigame to pass- i.e. room tree options, making it feel as if you have to make more important choices than 'hold skip and solve the maze. But what is included currently isn't necessarily the worse game I've seen.

So yeah, would I recommend this? No
Was it still an entertaining point and click game? Occasionally yeah, good enough to say it isn't necessary to avoid this. But it wasn't anything special.

Lots of grinding, lots of killing boars and harpies, imps and other shit.
There are also bugs, for example:

1. Game doesn’t remember the font you selected and resets it every time you restart.
2. While exploring, events might not trigger at all. For instance, the note at the very beginning — I had to walk back and forth 5 times before the game finally realized I wanted to read it. Though before that, it gave me an error screen.
3. Some enemy called "Dire Wolf" don't even have its own sprite, or its just a game don't wanna show me this creature

There’s not much to say about combat — it’s standard card-based battles. But for example, there’s a card that’s supposed to apply bleeding, but you have no idea whether it actually worked or not. Or a card that boosts your damage at the cost of health — there’s no indication it’s doing anything.
Just having status icons would’ve been a basic quality-of-life feature, but they’re not here. Only poison shows a text prompt.
As for the h-content — hard to say, I played for about an hour and saw only bj with some orc...
In conclusion, game’s been in development for 4 years, and it’s still in a very rough state — 2/5 +1 for really good art style.

Literally, nice game. Lacking walkthrough a little bit but overall it's pretty good. Especially the artworks, Tjop really knows styles. The female bodies in this game is just too good (to my taste). Very looking forward to next update. Well done.

There is a lot of detail in this game, and a game it truly is. I always respect when the dev can find a way to fully emulsify you into the world and make it fun.

+ Positives
- Unique and beautiful art with some very voluptuous models.
- Fun
- Combat is interesting
- Interactive map
- Cheats available

- Negatives
- Questing is often tedious and lacking proper direction
- Gallery is available but not easy to access
- Map can be a slow grind and have you feel like you're playing Pokémon on Gameboy (A wild *** has appeared).
- Why can't you fuck the Harpy's and other beings whenever you want like the Orc?
- Lack of detail in the most important part.... the sex. More interactive, position changes, etc. Usually you can only decide if you want to cum in our out. There is also no pregnancy with cumming inside of them.

It would be cool to see this game or a new game developed by the same creator with more immersion into the sex aspect.

I just finished the 0.08 update and I can't thank the dev enough for these curvy, voluptuous and delicious milfs. A real work of art... BRAVO!
That's said I can't ignore the obvious few negatives (and I think many players agree with me).
First of all, the in-game walkthrough, it really needs to be more detailed. Many times I thought of quitting the game because I was lost. The when and where are simply not there.
The second thing is the H-scenes, they feel unrewarding, short and barren. They contained a lot of black screens that should've been filled with GIFs or at least some pictures related to the sex commentary.
I really hope the dev will address these issues in next updates as he moves forward (PLEASE, DO NOT rework or revamp or re-anything).
Finally, this game has the potential to one of the best. Good job dev and good luck.

Gave this a try after i saw that the dev may be picking up the process again. - It's quite a neat thing but unfortunately i can't rate it very highly at this point as the game crashes, and is full of stuff that just doesn't work.

Bugs/crashes have prevented me from advancing the game. I can see the appeal, but until it becomes more stable, and gets quality of life updates it's a hard pass.

What an wonderful little game. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The quests are interesting. However, overall story can use a little bit of work. I loved the visuals. This is an early stage game so I expect a lot more in upcoming future.

I came for the amazingly thick art, and I was thourgly satisfiesd. The game is rough around the edges but the art and battle system makes up for it. I can tell dev likes to write, seen with the long passages during exploration and an entire 100+ page book filled with a story.

-Amazing Art especially if you're into thicc( I know some say its all elves and not humans but the ears are barely noticeable if that distracts you)
- Cool premise

- Questing is rough (Some quests like the evidence was confusing)
- There is a gallery but only accessible at night
- Can feel grindy

Too bad its onhold, but I hope to see more from the dev

The Big Beyond shows amazing potential and great promise!

The artstyle is amazing and unique, and fits the theme and aesthetic of the story being told very well. Talking about theme, Wow!

The fantasy genre is lacking in my opinion, especially when it comes to games with more taboo options.

The gameplay is pretty standard turn based combat, with the beginnings of an item system in place, and training you pay for to increase your stats. (perhaps turn it into a sort of minigame to make training feel more impactful, but that's neither here nor there.)

The dialogue has a few errors in places, but thats to be expected when im unsure if English is even the Devs native language.

The developer seems very active, appearing on F95 almost every day, which (hopefully) bodes well for this projects future.

I hope this project comes to fruition, but even if it doesn't, great work on just this dude.

I really like the art of this game. Lots of big tits MILFs. I hope the developer will return to the game soon. The grind can be too much sometimes, but still I enjoyed the game. Maybe need more sex scenes.

2025: The dev returned and picked the game back up. There are some new contents and the dev is taking his time. I hope the game continues on.

This game is so promising! I love milfs/big tits so its already intresting but the attention to detail in every frame was awe-inspiring, great character design, nice story. I hope that we gonna see more from this developer. Keep the good work and come back to us with some good content!

One of the best game I've played, awesome art, the quests are good and the ladies/scenes very hot! There is already a lot of content available and it seems like there is a lot more to come. Congrats to the dev for the making of this game.

For someone who likes dungeons and dragons with a bit of R-rated stuff thrown in for kicks, you will enjoy this more than any other game. For someone like me, it wasn't my cup of tea.

You go exploring the Beyond, a vast wilderness expanse and encounter creatures, bandits etc. You fight and kill bandits while with some creatures you go for the flesh, minus the sustenance.

No character is human so even the best characters with whom you can have H-scenes are elves, so as I said earlier, if you're in for those kinks, this is the game for you. For people like me, hard pass.

Version played 0.07
This will be a rather short review but so be it

The quality of art is great, sure not the best animations I have seen but considering the style it would also be rather hard to animate so no big deal. Of course most of the girls are old, fat and have large breasts which is kind of the antithesis of my personal taste, so that makes it rather hard to judge.

But the fact that I played through that despite my distaste of the women does speak of the quality.
The story / exploring also works rather well. I do think some areas could have been better marked, such as the smith near the entrance of town. There is also a lot of clicking through the same areas, a map would have been nice. The ui is also rather weird to navigate, you can't use your mouse in the inventory which is not usually the case with ren py games.

Still over all I think this is one of the better ones on and I will continue to follow it, even if most of the girls are really not my taste.

Incredible stuff. Simply incredible.

Artwork is A+. Lots of curvy girls. Might need to add a little more variety, but all in all great stuff. Would be nice to repeat scenes with more characters, though.

There's some bugs with quests not progressing properly, but nothing too serious.


As of the 0.07 update, I've gotten to the end within about fourteen hours.

And damnit, I want more. Can't wait for the next update.

This game is definitely worth playing. The art is simply fantastic. My biggest criticism is that the writing or translation is really rough, with odd misspellings and weird syntax. It's still mostly readable and better than some games.

At least one apparent bug: The purple mushroom for the potion of cleansing (Queens quest) isn't respawning after the earlier quest.

Also, a possible bug: I've only seen two visits from Mother and she's referred to several times as apparently having already moved in?

Navagating is terrible and is completely ruining the game, i didn't know where the blacksmith was didnt know where the bed was, didnt know where the castle was etc.

Allot of navigating the world is unclear and i spent most of the time accidently clicking on the wrong corner of the screen, it was unclear where you could click also.

I constantly got stuck and had to google wtf i needed to do next both story wise and navigating because it's completely fucking unclear where to go and how to trigger new quests from within the game

There should be just an option to turn arrows on or something.
Or atleast short cuts at the button of the screen so if your at the city there a button to travel instantly to the tavern, black smith, castle etc.

if i didn't need to nonstop google shit and get a spliting headache navigating and finding out what content exists it would be great, however the ui ux is completely ruining the game, and needs to be seriously worked on before more stuff gets added to the game.

It should be straight foward and self evident how to find all the content in the game and where to go without trawling the forums. There is potential for a good game but it's such a pain in the ass to play currently, it's unintuitive and not natural feeling.

beyond that the game is laggy, i'm not really sure what can be done to reduce that it seems to be a renpy thing generally but if it's possible to optimise that or offer lower res textures, it'll be great considering it already performs somewhat poorly and there is little content so far in the game, i imagine far more content is planned, at the current performance it could seriously hold the game back.

love the art, animation is fine, did i say i love the art? Desing of females supreme. Some problems with quests i did encounter, but most of the fixet itself by progresing story (mushroom cap guy was problem i saw him one time and then never and later i found mushroom and places for trap set by itself)

The Big Beyond game has a great potential and is a personal favourite of mine. I'm rating current content as of v0.06.

Story: 5/5 - Innovative story, this game makes you actually want to read what's going on and enjoy the process as if you were reading a good book. There's evident effort put into the narrative aspect, with detailed descriptions of places, MC's thoughts, and proper conversations. Main and side quests are consistent and characters have well-developed personalities. The elf/fantasy medieval setting it's a plus, and the main concept behind the story is innovative in games of this genre (exploration of the unknown).

Art: 5/5 - The 2D artwork is simply amazing: the backgrounds, characters, items, everything is beautifully drawn by hand. I'm a fan of 2D games because of the personal and particular feel they provide, but this is simply top level. The female NPCs are gorgeous, realistic and all have very different looks and attributes to satisfy all tastes. The day/night backgrounds are simply stunning, they are a piece of art by themselves.

Gameplay: 4/5 - The gameplay is enjoyable taking in consideration the Ren'Py limitations. The built-in hint system works well, and the way the inventory and combat is handled is very robust and consistent. However, the navigation system in the first part of the Beyond , and the different actions that can be performed on each site can be confusing, but this has been addressed by the developer introducing a new navigation system in the second part of the Beyond that maybe will extend to the first part in a future update. The way the gallery system is implemented in-game is also innovative as it makes part of the storyline itself.

Sexy times: 4/5 - Despite the artwork and static CGs being fantastic, the artist/developer needs to improve the animations so they are more smooth and feel more natural. I'm sure there's much effort already put on improving this, and we see that with every release this aspect gets better and better, so with time this will become a 5/5.

Future potential: 5/5 - With a great story, innovative gameplay and gorgeous graphics, the potential of this game is top class.

Final rating: 23/25 - 5 stars