VN - Ren'Py - The Cabin - Summer Vacation [Ep. 9] [CellStudios]

Ep. 9
The writing isn't good, which is unfortunate for such a verbose visual novel.

Sex scenes are so boring I almost fell asleep.

Even the models are nothing special.

TLDR
Nothing of interest here if it's not your first"adult""game"

(Review of ep. 9)

The last time I played this was in ep. 7 or so. It was an interesting project back then, but come to ep. 9 this is far too boring for an adult VN. I mean I appreciate a story driven AVN but if I *just* wanted a story I'd be reading a book or watching a movie. Episodes 8 and 9 (so far) apparently have no sex besides a quick fling with a prostitute on the side, which is a let down. Maybe it was due to my choices but you know, I don't care. After the scene at the hospital I skipped most of the rest as I was falling asleep.

The scene with the prostitute was OK technically speaking, but this apparently wants to be a mixture of Friday the 13th and an AVN with (by now just merely suggested) incest, and the result isn't exactly great. Maybe this is the payment processors taking their toll on development, but considering what's on offer I for one would feel bad if I was paying for this by now. It's not like I'm playing this again anyway.

Good luck and all that.

In 2025, this game deserves a 5 star review.
In the first few updates, there were various problems such as a slow plot, inconsistent art styles, frequent bugs, etc.
But after a few years of development, I feel that the game is getting better step by step.
The current storytelling ability, character art and picture rendering are definitely top-notch among VN game produced by independent producers.

The only drawback is that the update speed is really slow. And the game as a whole is not as amazing everyone as some of side quest mini games made by this author.

Missing a couple tags I see. Pregnancy for sure as it is warned about in the game unless the script is just full of crap. Harem as well. Apparently he can have as many LI's as he can manage to not chicken shit out on and the Dev permits him to engage and go all the way with, I say that as the Dev loves him only getting a handy or a BJ and nothing else. Look how long it took him to finally fuck Lisa just the once. Choices would be nice as hell as there are damn few in this game. Loving Linda's hairy snatch as well. Nice to see. Hate games where everyone is just shaved. Variety is the spice of life. Imagine if all there was in life was one kind of pie. Hope you like apple.

Girls all look great. More actions with them would also be fantastic. Hopeful but also full of doubts as well. Progress in this is very slow.

Pretty standard incest story with a bit of murders and such, its very vanilla and for some reason the hole taboo feeling is simply just not there when it comes to the hole incest part which is pretty much all game is about and its also very very drawn out, im yet to see a single sex scene since there was only 2 girls i cared about, the sister and her new friend the "nerd" red head.

And this is where game has a big issue the girls, its made for cavemen with the big tit fetish and im just not into them what so ever and every time your offered to either have a new love interrest or just meaning less sex with a side girl, its ALWAYS big fucking tits and im so tierd of that, why devs dont make more diversity in builds is plain idiotic since it would attract more people instend of just those with one specific kink/fetish.

So for me it lost alot of points do to the lack of LIs which is due to 99% having big tits, its only the sister and the red head that has smaller size but red head is not a LI atleast not yet? which makes for only a single girl out of everyone and thats just not good enough.

Also getting tierd of constantly seeing the huge tits in my face when playing games like this, even when you have turned them down dev still pushes them into you face by showing them topless or nude none stop.....i always found the stupid as fuck, it just makes it feel alot less like a real story when people do out of this world things.

As for content theres alot of dialogs and very slow progress with the sister, so slow that theres still only just now a single sex scene with her after 4 years of making this game and that is just to long a wait and again it loses alot of points on that.

And last for the virgin/deflower fans, its a bit of a mixed bag since girl does say OW! then fucks like shes done it a million times before, no blood even though they made a close up... for some reason devs are scared of making that.

Also theres a huge lack of choices, not when it comes to relationships those are perfect, but everything else is kinetic when it comes to main story and theres not even a single fun choice to spice things up in dialogs, instend MC will just act as a boring shimp which makes for quite a boring gameplay.

So if you have a big tit fetish this game will proberly be for you even if it is a bit of a slow burn but atleast you will have more fun, but for anyone else theres no real point in playing this.

This game has decent renders, good looking LI's and its obvious the dev is competent at making VN's based on their previous projects. Which is why the writing is so disappointing.

The general plotting is fairly nonsensical. The way the characters act just doesn't make sense. They act in a way to support the plot, rather than act in a way that's believable.

The dialogue is fairly boring. Technically it's fine, but it's just kinda dry and cliche.

The worst part is the incest tho. As the main kink of the game, there is absolutely 0 taboo feeling whatsoever. It's just run of the mill boring dating sim style stuff, except technically they are your sis/mom/aunt. The main allure of incest stuff is the taboo, so when the characters barely react to sexual stuff between family it just feels off.

Played this game to episode 4. All the good things that I can say are that renders, poses and models are nice most of the time. But character pupils look like a whole family constantly uses LSD to relax. Their behavior from ep1 and onward degrades very fast, and by ep4 I had already dropped it because of how dumb and irrational their behavior was.

I'm talking about the maniac's appearance in the story; he kidnaps a girl, MC saves her, they return home, but then instead of alerting about the psycho in the woods near their house and barricading his whole family in the house and calling the police, MC just does nothing because the girl that he knows for a day or smth asked him to not tell about it to anyone because she doesn't want to worry her sister. And MC does just that and puts his whole family in grave danger because of the request of yesterday's stranger. That was an absolutely idiotic and unbelievable turn of events for me. And most of other interactions and behavior between characters is weird and fake to some extent too.

The game is almost 4yo and the intimate progress with characters is laughable, with standard hanjobs/blowjobs and "I'm not ready" circus to stretch the boring and uninspired story even further, as I've read in the thread MC fucked some side character once, and that's it. And all this lack of content and progress happens in a below average story full of cliche and weird behavior.

But then Dev, instead of moving stale progress with existing characters, made a big-brain move and, in the latest update, introduced a new character from his other game, but from the same game universe . She is a girl of MC from the previous game, and Dev wanted to make her, from a loyal, devoted and loving girlfriend to a cheating, cheap slut that by her own will and desire wants to cuck MC from another game with the current MC, just because, and there is nothing more to it. By this move, the dev implemented inevitable ntr/cuckoldry for MC of his other game, because in the end, the main LI will want to betray/cheat on him with the new MC anyways.

Yeah, after deserved backlash, Dev changed it, but you, who read the review and are thinking if you should try this game, deserve to know how Dev treated his other game story and its characters.

I think that Dev is very tired and uninspired to continue working on this game with former efforts and dedication.

Not only is the story interesting, the girls are beautiful, and unique, and the development of the sexual relationships with each girl are natural and perfectly paced (Not straight to sex). Loving the progression and the feeling of being more or less stuck in a cozy cabin with a bunch of beautiful women.

Nice graphics, diverse body type models with more on the curvy side, "Fighting, torture, revenge, monsters, chases, escapes, true love", karaoke, incest!
Looks like we will have pregnancy too. Overall mood is lighthearted summer romp.

i was baited by incest and i was left hanging... we got a mediocre looking sister and some decent looking milfs but their bland personalities paitrd with your usual copy+paste thropes make for a mediocre dish. i'll be generous and omit the lackluster narrative...

on paper it could have been great,but the execution is lacking and feels like a cashgrab, but at least the english is good

While currently not the longest, this is a good VN where I actually read because the written content is good as well as the renders are fantastic. I am excited to seeing future updates. I would strongly suggest checking this out

VERSION: EP6 EDIT: EP.8
SUMMARY: Great game, models and fair story, but its slow pace is further compounded by its slow development.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 4
2. Animations: 4
3. General Visuals: 4
4. Characters: 3
5. Story: 3
6. Writing: 4
7. Pacing: 3
8. Content (amount): 4
9. UI & Sounds: 4
10. Fetish & kinks: 4

Average: 37 of 50 possible points giving a 74% rating i.e. 4-5 stars.

PROS:

1. Very nice looking models and they also not completely out of proportion or bimbo's.
2. Animations are very good also.
3. Writing and general flow is good with good structure, dialogue is not overly bloated and contribute meaningfully to the characters
4. Story is simple enough but fairly interesting, though I would maybe have gone another way (see final comments)
5. Sounds are rather nice and sexual moans also provide nice spice to H scenes, which is something most games have little of.
6. Kinks are pretty nice, ability to have incestuous relationships and also knock LIs up are nice kinks.

CONS:

1. While MC is young he could look a little better with some scruff, especially considering his hair is black and with junk his size, you would think he would at least have more testosterone and by implication more bodily hair making him look more masculine.
2. The developer makes some "reaches" in driving the characters together sexually. The game is clearly written with family relation intent, yet there are little reservations when the mother and aunt just simple strip down in front of their son/nephew. They act like its nothing, even if they were adopted family or even close friends, there really was no lead up to the sexual suggestiveness.
3. Some of the plot feels lost, if we are to believe there is some paranormal event happening it kinda fades into the background and the characters do not really react in realistic ways which further drives that unrealistic theme. This is probably also compounded by the slow pace of the games development, which is really only now showing some more significant changes (at least on the sexual side of things, not much on the plot)
4. VN does not have many choices really, feels more like a kinetic novel that the player simply follows.
5. Not much in terms of sex, I mean actual sex with MC "Family" which is taking too long considering most inhibitions are broken early on and easily. The holding out part now simply drives player frustration and confusion as to why they holding back. Blue-balling does come to an end in the last few updates, I believe 7 and 8, so the MC does get some "action" this is an improvement, but I still have concerns (see comments)
6. Little if any fetishes or kinks. There are implied, like breastfeeding and pregnancy, but they are not in the game (not yet anyway) nor any other even if implied like the urination hint made early on. Clearly implying lil "sister" has some fetishes. I would like to see more of this. Some of this, in this last episode may have been implemented i.e. pregnancy with one LI, however its implied and this is still not 100% the same as being pregnant and also different from "showing" pregnant state. See comments.
7. Pacing is good enough, but (and forgive me if this seems to be a gripe) I find that the sexual progress is too slow considering the way the "family" have clearly displayed sexual interest in the MC. At this point it would seem the MC is merely being teased and is a bit of a wimp to not simply "take" these teasing woman, who have even mentioned they they "wanted" the MC for some time (implied).
8. Per above points and as mentioned by more than one person reviewing the game, there is a bit 1 step forward and 2 steps back going on when it comes to progress with the MCs "family" e.g., MC's mother lets him suckle on her, yet when he later makes a move on her and simply kiss him, she shoves him off. Talk about mixed signals. The poor MC is blue-balled and jerked around and they can't feign ignorance, the mother clearly wants the MC.

FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:

• Personally I would have opted to use the book found as means to fuck with the "family" dynamic, even accidentally, sister being such a bookworm, something could have inadvertently gone wrong while reading it, causing the "family" sexual bond and breaking of taboos and inhibitions between family members. This could have also worked with any relationship really, simply as means to push the woman onto the MC sexually. That would at least have been more believable even if its all mysticism, magic and bullshit.
• Based on development time, there is a fair amount of content but not a lot and to keep the quality, rushing wont do this game justice, only more content would. Because this game could do with a fair bit of fetishes and such it will need a decent amount of content and not take ages before we players get it. You will simply loose all interest in this game.
• I am hoping, as per my review for more H scenes, decent and plenty more content. The story could and IMO should have followed closer to my idea mentioned above to drive more plausible adult erotic novel with plenty of H scenes and kinks. It could also have been done while keeping most of the original content.
• Adding to the above point and this is just to again reaffirm/emphasize my point. More content, much more is needed for the slow pace this game is going at in terms of sexual progress with the MC's "family". You also can't simply have one full scene with each member, there should be several with different taboos and inhibitions broken IMO, else you come across as rushing a good game to a shallow conclusion. I also hope, as per the latest post from the dev regarding this release, content will be more regularly released.
• It is great to see some progress is made and that an LI impregnated (potentially), which is a major kink and milestone to the MC, LI and the game in general. Blue-balling is less of an issue, but this game is notorious for it and only one LI (in my playthrough) to this point could be potentially impregnated, which does still drive blue-balling if the player is pursuing other LIs.
• The content, while very good is still slow, the pacing is drawn out, and this can be a good thing, but to offset it, you need to release more content i.e., regular, meaningful updates that drive the story and relationships. Currently progression of the main plot and even the MC relationships with LIs are still very slow. This does make me wonder how long this game will still take before it concludes (when I say conclude I mean with the current quality we have come to expect. Not implying that the developer should rush to complete, but content is slow to release, which is pretty sad and disappointing.)
• My last point is something that many games do which is really annoying and thats implied conditions like pregnancy. Saying the LI is knocked up is implied, and while this is kinky to achieve the moment in the story, once its done, its all more of the same. I would like to see, and hope we do in this, is a timeline, which progresses and the visual changes to the LIs that are knocked up are obvious and advantage is taken of this. e.g. from morning sickness scenes, craving for foods (i.e. adding it to the story drives home that the LI is knocked up), enhanced libidos, horny all the time, lactation and breast milk and bodily changes, bigger bellies, boobs, nipples and such. These things if implemented make it IMO all the more kinky and is often overlooked and usually at the end of the game, the last scene is usually a big belly LI and none of what I mentioned above is implemented, which is just an extremely wasted opportunity. TLDR: The dev should not implement pregnancy at the end of the game, but during and emphasize it using examples I mentioned above.

All in all a very good game, that could have been better but still very good and worth the support. Still, as mentioned before, this is a very good game, its content is good, its models are beautiful and sexy, its writing is good and overall is just GOOD. I only wish that, due to its slow pace, there would be more content produced, more regularly, but this is a game worth supporting regardless and is one of the best VNs out there IMO

The game opens like it's going to have a corruption arc but nope, suddenly everyone throws themselves at the mc desperately.

Scenes which seem like they are going to be interesting and give you a chance to push things forward just end up boring nothings. For example massaging just the calves of your willingly naked sis.

Player never gets a choice - MC always chooses to be a coward.

The girls are horribly hairy and there's an old fetish. even the sister looks 50 in most scenes due to the grey twotone hair, while there are a lot of even older side characters immediately showing their rotting hairy vaginas.

MC also seems to have no hygiene, mentioning that he's been told sperm smells fishy.

For some reason the writing gets worse and worse, the sister now acts like a 6 year old, utterly unable to understand basic biology or semen. It's cripplingly unnattractive

2 star for you. One for good looking models and one for interesting concept.
Might as well change the title to "Let's guess what sex scene will the dev remove next update".
Devs does a one step forward two steps back type shii, put sex scene then remove it the next update.
Anyways goodluck

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm schizophrenic,
And so am I.
This game, man. Such nice renders, hot girls, nice build-up to possible family jollies... unfortunately, you've got this 18-year-old MC who seems to be a mixture of Puritan, horndog, older brother assholiness, empathetic son, and, most disorientingly -- someone who professes to care about his family yet when he's in the woods with a girlfriend and she is kidnapped by an unknown psycho right nearby, chooses to keep quiet about it at her casual request. Oh, he does tell his Mom's friend about it the NEXT DAY, and she advises maybe getting some outside camera - tomorrow. Where is the urgency after such a terrible experience close by?
And speaking of his Mom's best friend -- there's a scene out in the woods, in an underground sort of bunker they find, where the Mom's BF strips, after getting spritzed with water, so the MC, uncharacteristically, strips too. Then she just offhand starts wondering if maybe they could role play a bit to help her writing. Which MC, again completely uncharacteristically, is fine with -- and he takes charge, and sex with his Mom's BF ensues. It would be hot if it was in any way believeable. It's just that this MC is all over the map, and it's never clear what is at stake for anyone.
In this same exploratory setting, MC happens to pull his pants down and jerk off into his sister's hands -- and yet that night, when she slips in the shower during a blackout, and asks him to give her a hand up, IN THE DARK, he replies, "You're sure? You're, um... kind of naked, Lisa." -- ???
I had alREADY been turned off by him when he decided to keep his mother's revelations to himself, despite knowing that his sister had been as mystified and upset as he was.
If it wasn't for this lunkhead, and tonal inconsistencies, my rating would be a 5, probably, but the story is too wrapped up in his unbelievable --literally -- behavior, to allow me to get behind it. Oh well. I would not know HOW one would fix this outside of a total character removal/replacement/amputation, so .. better luck next time, dev. But thanks for the effort!

I really like the models and the renders are good. I don't have any problems with the characters relationship plot, but the overall story is so dumb. Mild spoilers, a friend of the MC was kidnaped and maybe almost killed. The MC doesn't call the cops or tell his family right away that there is a killer (or something) on the loose because he doesn't want to worry them or something.
I don't mind porn logic in my porn games, but stuff like that really pulls me out of the experience.

The Cabin - Summer Vacation [Ep.5]
Finally I played up to EP.4 and the Developer went dormant for like a year and I thought it had been abandoned, I kept checking around to see if maybe it was still active and there it was. I love the story it has just the right amount of suspense and the lust attraction is perfect, hopefully it won't be a year before the next update.

I gave a 5 star, because quite frankly, it has it all.
Great renders and models, excellent writing and plot, great story progressing, good to excellent sex scenes.
I won't spoil the story, but it's basically my fantasy come true.

Really good game. Very well written. Renders are very good quality as are the girls. Relationship between MC and others realistic enough to build a bit of intrigue . The actual story itself in where it is leading actually wants me to play this more. Can't wait for the completed version and will definitely be buying it. Thanks to the developer for the effort in creating something worth playing.

This is my first review. I must say that I'm really impressed by the author's ability to make a story that not only capture the sexual arousement going on in this very special enviroment and situation. But also creating an exiting tale that makes it worth the wile reading the dialogues instead of skipping. I must say this is one of the greatest adult games out there, I really think it's worth top ratings! I give it a 5/5 because I'm a big fan and looking forward to the continuation of this project. Thanks!