VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - The Blackout [v0.5.2] [AfterLust]

Review for The Blackout v0.5.2

I played v 0.4 (had to start over because saves were broken) and 0.5 and the game was more of the same from v0.3 which was at least worth a try. It's been 14 months since 0.5 and there have been two updates (0.5.1 and 0.5.2) that have just been enhancements that include minor changes to the user interface along with internal changes that can't be seen. The game had the [abandoned] tag for several months and it's not hard to see why. My recommendation is to not bother with this game until the dev gets back into a cadence of releasing actual content.

Previous review for The Blackout v0.03

Gameplay: The game is completely linear. Nothing can be done out of order or simultaneously. The only function of the sandbox is to break the player's immersion. I guess the sandbox supports the 4 scrambled-photo puzzles, but it really seems unnecessary at this point. Right now, every location/room is empty except the one you need to be in to trigger the next event. Maybe there is a plan to add a lot more content that can be played simultaneously.

Story: It's a cliché adult visual novel plot which appears to be playing out in The Matrix or as a memory in Total Recall or something. It's not exactly brilliant, but it's not terrible, and well, it is a porn game.

Writing: The writing is much better than average for games of this type, but it's not great writing. The English grammar and spelling are very good.

Visuals: Renders are very good. Animations are good, but they all seem to play in abnormally short loops.

Some various annoying things:

Animations force you to wait for 5 seconds before you can skip them. This is super annoying when you just want to roll back to re-read a line of dialog or something.

The sex scenes instantly jump from two people standing next to each other to deep penetration. It gives the feeling that the developer doesn't understand erotica at all.

The only girl that's has sex scenes so far is a complete slut with an ugly bull ring in her nose, a cliché Japanese schoolgirl hairstyle, and she wears a made-for-porn-only Japanese schoolgirl uniform to work in a regular clothing store. OK, it's a porn game, but it just doesn't fit.

Same Story again , a single mother with dad disappeared or dead , one sweet and one anoying sister . You gotta ail all of them.

PRO's are its renders and beautiful milfs

CON's Its a total kinetic novel no matter what you choose the outcome is the same. So that tag should be added.

What can I say. It's the most generic incest game ever. It has stunning model,s but that's starting to become the norm. It seems that the inde 3d porn game space is evolving and it's no longer normal, at all, to have grainy, poorly rendered, knockoff models. Now things look good so this is the new baseline.

That being said, the game has taste, things look good. And it's full incest, every family member is a candidate. Awesome!

However, it takes the concept of generic porn game and pushes it into the realm of art. It's so proud of its mediocrity that it has to share it with the world. But instead of relying on every cliche in the book to speed up the story and bumfuck the mom, no, we have to have the cliche and like it too. The story, the exposition. It's going into so many stupid details without actually progressing. At some point, I shit you not, the mom goes something like "I have a masters degree in love or some such bullshit" I wish she also said the last part.

A self aware game would have continued that line with "So, if you ever need to cum in mommy's hair while she's changing clothes, just go right ahead. Mommy understands." But no, we have to have another probably 5 updates of more generic cliche incest BS before any real incest starts.

Next, the sandbox is really shitty. No notes on where to go next or where people are. THis is one of those games where people are ghosts, and if they don't have any story relevance, they go into another dimension. All rooms are empty, exploration is pointless. In your house you have a left right arrow that doesn't tell you where it will go, but it seems to go in a circle. Except not. WIthout any visual indications, these arrows that sometimes take you in circles, other times have contextual events where "no, this time pressing right won't take you right, but will instead take you to the corridor".

Idk. I'm not ignoring this thread yet cuz the models are hot. But I'm already regretting my weakness.

A good game so far, actually for me it's better then the rest newcomers in the incest genre, and I played a lot of this games. Decent story. nice characters, great visuals. I really like the flow of the dialogs, they are light and easy going, I'm really tired of this rubbish exposition in the rest of the games where you want to skip and skip all the letters that are written. Here they are rather short and true to the point.

The main cons are:

- The game is rather short, but as for the quality of renders i can understand why.
- Useless openworld mechanic. I actually hate it in the majority of the games and here it's also pointless. The game is linear no use of clicking on this place or that room. Better stay with actions. This pointless clicking killing the flow
- Lil Sis character design. I think it's awkward that the youngest looks the least young in this story. And for me her design is rather boring en general

This is definitelly one of the best games that i have tried in a long time. The girls in the game looks amazing, the movement beetween rooms is easy and the story could be interesting in the future.

RENDERS: 4.5
STORY: 4
GIRLS: 4.5

the only bad poit that i noticed is the face of the little sister, the render looks weird

thanks for the game

As this game is still very early in development there is not too much content for me to judge it by yet, but the renders are absolutely beautiful. I definitely give the looks of the ladies a 10/10. However, even this early there are a couple of problems.

1) The game is a bit on the generic side. Now if you are happy with the old formula of 'a guy returns home to his family one day and starts banging them' you might not have a problem with that, but I would personally like to see a bit more. The characters are all tropes we have seen before too, like
- the doting loving mother
- the affectionate younger sister who is inexperienced and really loves her brother
- the bitchy older sister who initially dislikes her brother
- the mom's best friend who needs MC to help her with her yoga exercise
Well, you can see where it is going. Though since this is still early in the game's development maybe we see some more originality later on.
2) Stupid useless sandbox. Why does it even exist? The game is completely linear anyways, the game tells you exactly where to go and there is nothing else to do on the overmap. Again, maybe more content gets added to it later on, but as of right now the sandbox does nothing other than bloating the game
3) The English is bad. Grammar errors, spelling errors, wrong word usage ("much" when it should have been "many"). Even if the sentences don't have any errors in them, they still sound very stiff. I assume the dev is English second language, the game would definitely benefit from a native speaker checking and fixing the script.

All that being said, I am a sucker for good looking graphics and the game definitely delivered on that part and since it is so early in its development I will still give it 4*, despite its flaws. I am hopeful for the game's future.

It seems a good start the renders and the models are the two other stars will be as for the game continue but its a very good game with a lot of pottential hope to see a lot scenes equally for each character

Artistically this is great, character design, renders, and animations are all better than average.

The story is passable, there isn't a whole lot to it yet.

The actual writing and dialogue is by far the weakest point, definitely needs a writing supervisor or editor or something to polish this up.

I absolutely hate sandbox games I tolerate it but I’ll probably end of with arthritis because of them. That said, I enjoyed this game, that’s is from what little I’ve seen.

There’s a story here the mysterious man stalking the MC and the dad’s disappearance, I hope to learn more about that. The grammar could use some work also, a lot of awkward phrases and sentences. But nothing that can’t be easily fixed.

Renders/characters are pretty good I can tell that the Dev probably likes the look of the Apocalust game, or simply just thicc women. Not complaining though. Didn’t like the character Ashley, too much of a cliche for me.

Hopefully there’s actual choices but this looks good, and I hope people support the Dev.

- very great graphic (5/5)
- Nice scripting and characters (All the characters are easily 5/5)
- The music is great
- Great idea with puzzles
- Great animations
- looks really promising for a first release
- Can't wait for the next update!

I put 5 stars to support the dev! Good luck with your game!

Graphically, it's an above-average game. Otherwise, meh.

The story has the setup to be really cool, but other than the opening scenes and a couple of short moments, it's left to rot. I'd say that the 0.1 release of the game should be pretty story-driven to set up future releases. Instead, this dev spends the whole update saying "Aren't these girls beautiful!?" and jamming it with as many AVN tropes as we can get.

Wildly curvy yoga cougars? check

MILF that "needs help with yoga"? check

Incest? Not outright, but check.

Adoring roommate and Hateful roommate? check.

Every girl looks to be about the same age? Check.

Amnesia? Check (kind of)

Poorly implemented free roam system that is completely unnecessary? Check.


The renders ARE gorgeous, but I've played plenty of games with great renders that turn out to be nothing because the story is non-existent or poorly executed. There are probably tens of thousands of games on the site, good visuals aren't enough to keep my attention anymore. The game is super tropey and has little imagination to it thus far outside of that one interesting opening scene.

The writing seemed grammatically fine, nothing that made my monkey brain stumble and have to reread the section harder. But, the writing that's there is just boring.

I hope the dev focuses more on a story-driven game with great visuals and good sex scenes rather than just rely solely on the latter two. F95 has enough incest amnesia games with no imagination, don't let this be another.

Version: 0.02

Good game just starting

Pros:

• Female characters are beautiful
• Quality renders
• Milfs++++
• Big boobs (please movement animation, lol)

Cons:

• Blinks on the screen during the animation.
• Kylee scene
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(this review might change after more content is released)

Pretty good for a first release, a little sad there is no outright sex as I like to see more substantial first releases to really get a feel for a how a game is going to be, but there was enough to keep up the interest so I can't really complain. Not only are the models just as good as you see on this page, but the animation is surprisingly good for a first release. Not perfect, but still better than most.

Didn't get much sense for the story and the "drama" or the "plot twist" seems rather contrived, to the point where I hope there isn't too much focus on it because that risks just taking attention and time away from the gorgeous women that are the real stars of the game. Even so the basic plot was easy to follow without trying to be sensational (which, again, would be a bad thing because it takes away from what the game is really about) and the general design from UI and language to sound and presentation was quite good!

Quite short currently, with maybe 2 scenes worth watching, but if this game sees just slow and steady improvement and remotely timely updates, I don't see a reason why it couldn't become really successful.

+ BIG ASS BIG TITS!!!!!
+ The graphics are realy awesome !
+ The puzzles are great
+ I liked all the characters (especially Lana)
+ Some very good ideas

- A bit of a classic story but the introduction seems to hide something!

I really liked the game and will definitely keep an eye on it! Good luck to the dev!