VN - Ren'Py - The Coven [v0.8] [Former Flame]

Short summary:


So here is the gist - MC has a magical dick and his cum is the most precious thing in existence. Every girl around you, including your relatives, is a witch that wants nothing more than your cum.


The writing isn’t great either. That made me immediately tune out and then watch on autoskip.


There are a lot of naked and sex scenes. Of course, MC has magical x-ray vision as well. Most models are pretty dated, but some are nice and sexy. Renders are low to average quality.



Good Things

• Some models are pretty hot, especially their tits
• Situations can be interesting, due to all the magical handwaving possible

Bad points

• Faces on most models are bad, blurred, and dated. Contrast with bodies greatly
• Childish premise
• Most renders have flat light, boring expressions
• Animations are very basic
• Choices are not well implemented
• Inconsistencies between frames and in character actions

Good game. The story is really good, I can't wait to see how it will grow and if we will be able to choose a path. For now it seems we are a good guy, but past men sorcerers leaded to war between witches so ... I prefer the nature coven with the oracle.. I dont really know why but it seems we will be able to learn more strong magic there. Good job.

The only problem I have with the game is the MC design, which to me is kind of ugly and old-fashioned. Besides that, the game is perfect; the story, the girls, and the relationships are all 10/10.

Fully recommend.

so far so good.. the writing seems to be clear and understandable compared to most VNs.. the characters are well planned out and the premise of the project does have interest for the future episodes..
At time of review it could use some music and effects to add to the appeal and dead silence that we currently is..
Good luck devs and i'll be following this on patreon

TLDR: rough and unpolished but a good material at the core.

Gameplay is linear renpy visual novel. Choices seems to only be there to select if you wish to see a scene or not, so far I've seen no consequences from choices. (other than knowingly refusing to interract further with a girl)

Animations and renders are good and above average. Girls are well done, lights are beautifull, backgrounds too. You can tell this is the strong point of this game.

Pron is quite disapointing as of now: very vanilla, climax is often poorly conveyed and quite frustrating, lack of text making the scene a bit mechanical. It gets better towards the later part of the game though, so there is some promising improvement.

Story is the main problem here. The writing is lackluster, confused and confusing. The world is barebone and even the girls have very little noticeable personalities. Just a bunch of babes craving for the D of MC for wtv reason.

Conclusion: core of the game is strong animations. Writting needs a lot of work to really make the technique shine. Right now it is more a succession of random pron scenes rather than an engaging story.

It's a 3.5 as of now (V 0.8) but I believe it can become a 4 easily if some work is put on writing both of the story and in the scenes.

First of all, the story is progressing really well right now, everything about the game is good except for a few minor problems, but what is missing in the game is that the characters are not introduced to us.

and the person who made the game didn't make the mistake in other harem games, whatever you say. In other harem games, mc has to choose between girls all the time, or he can only have a relationship with two of the girls and not live with either of them.
but in this game, mc can hang out with all the girls around him. In the current version of the game, he is not dating anyone, but most of the girls he talks to are given the option of being a girlfriend.

Render quality ✭✭✭ 3 stars - The game hasn't received any more updates so it's 3 stars for now but I'll probably reorganize it and give it more in future updates because the game maker shows that potential

Story ✭✭✭✭✭ 5 stars - The story in the game is usually based on magic and witches. It is not a very common story style, even if it is done, most people cannot progress successfully, but the game maker has advanced the story so well that it is neither too mysterious nor too complicated for now, I hope it continues like this.

MC or Protagonist ✭✭✭✭ 4 stars - Even though everything around him is new to him, he doesn't react much when he learns what magic is. He even knows how to talk to girls and he also knows how to talk to not only girls but also women.
Not much attention has been paid to his appearance, but as in other games, the clothes he wears are not always the same, they are constantly changing.

Character design ✭✭✭✭ 4 stars - You can really tell their age from the faces and bodies of the milfs and young people around you, only some of the characters are too similar to each other, other than that most of the characters are beautiful and hot

The Coven [v0.7]

As of V0.7

PROS

• Model's look good
• Interesting premise

CONS

• MC is unlikable
• Story seems a little disjointed
• Nothing much has really happened
• Forced scenes & reactions

CONCLUSION

Game doesn't know what it is, could've been an all-in fuck fest , a steady romance or a tense me vs them kind of game. It's somehow none of them whilst also making choices pointless ( rapey Sura just won't go away). Too far in to change I think. Wasted potential.

If you go in blind, you might no like the game. But if you can accept:


Then you might have a fun time. Story isn't terrible, but it could definitely be better. My only gripes, taking the above into account, are some scenes cut to the next at a very weird time with no warning, and there is very little dialogue during lewd scenes and it makes them feel more mechanical than hot.

Not a lot of choices. Big ones have been regarding side girl paths (to take them or shut them down).

I wouldn't call this game "the next thing you should play", but it should be high on your list of filler games. If they can flesh out some deeper background in the beginning, and correct the two issues above, I would maybe bump this to a 4 star.

This game is awful and I absolutely cannot believe that people have played this and actually enjoyed it. It genuinely feels like the creator of this game either expected us to play a prequel to this game that doesn't exist or literally be reading his mind to understand any of what is going on. Each scene feels like it isn't connected to the rest and sex kinda just happens. No emotions, no build-up, no nothing basically. The models are fine but so are the models on like 90% of the rest of the games on this site. I stopped playing at the trial of fire. Some person comes out with their arms on fire to fight you but it ends with you fucking them and somehow you passed because thats what you were supposed to do... Yeah that completely killed my interest in the game. If you want a good story or even just a story that is in anyway cohesive to an overall plot avoid this VN like the plague

Great writing, funny and interesting premise, amazing visuals... truly a must play VN.

If I had one minor ask from the writer, I'd love to get a little more dialog in those great sex scenes, but that's just me.

Dont know why the game has so many high ratings.

The game doesnt tell you anything. And yes, exposition dumps are stupid, but there is NO world building. The game even excuses itself at the start for some exposition, but that could be handled way better and that is not helping at all.

You have magic powers, you meet several women, but nothing is explained. The MC just accepts that and that's it.

You jump from location to location, there are timejumps and all that stuff.

e.g. At the pool, the MC says he is tired. - cut- Now it is dark and the GF is coming pack and I think she went shopping or eating with the rest of the girls. Some of them went shopping, but I think that was some time before the MC was tired.

Before that you get dumped with girls and their names, but way to many and to fast. From the get go you have some weird relationship with your ... step-sisters or ex-roommates or whatever they are.

One of the teachers is talking to you and spreads her legs to show u her panties and neither of the two is mentioning that or reacting to that.

Maybe the game get better, but at this point (after the pool) I am already to bored to play any further.

Most of the girls look nice, but some facial expressions and poses are weird.
With some re-writing this could be fixable I guess ... currently it is just confusing and boring.

I like this game a lot. It tells an interesting story. Sometimes even funny and unexpected.
The grafic is full of pretty girls and women.
I would be happy if the updates would come more often, but I understand that it take time to prepare this huge amount of pictures and text.

V 0.7 review -
Definitely top tier game and 5 stars from me . Excellent renders - some of the renders like casting spells are awesome and stunning female characters , fantasy setting ivolving witches , spells and magic , count me in and animations are great . Writing is also well done . By conclusion a nice fantasy game . Highly recommended , looking forward to the next updates .

Gotta say as I continue to play the game I'm loving it more and more. The renders are great.. not all of the girls are cookie cutter.. I mean look at Sura.. nothing like the other girls.. the older characters are good looking.. but not over the top.. Just a wide range overall. The story might meander a bit.. but hey I am enjoying the ride. The MC is learning about himself as he goes along.. I can live with it. In a nutshell.. good renders.. good writing.. good story.. and 5 stars from me.

I don't like to review often but the fact that this game is sitting at 3.5 stars right now is criminal, considering the characters and writing is a step above most of the games sitting at 4.5+

The renders aren't amazing or anything, but where this game shines is the cast of characters. Every girl has a unique personality that makes them very desirable. Instead of girls whose personalities all start to blend together, here they each stand out in their own way. This dev has done an especially good job with the girls in the family.

I'd like to see what this dev can accomplish with more support, so I hope to see this get the attention it deserves.

Definitely 5 stars. Very good story, models. renders, animations, and whatnot. This is not the run-of-the-mill VN you would find in 99% of the games on this website. I really don't understand why it doesn't get the same attention as many other games that do not deserve it. Give it a try.

What can I say. "Top notch" is the short version.
The longer one begins with the story. Intriguing, unconventional and lets say to some extent even fascinating. For sure with a lot potential! ^^
Further more the sight of the flawless, non ´standard´ location renders. You can see how much effort went into them. Next come the character models. The dev got his hands on the best ones. The most beautiful ones, the hottest ones, the cutest ones and the Milf´iest ones Heck, even the animations are very well made - in positioning and flow - all in all this game is "Top Notch", A+ , premium class - call it like you want ^^

Really enjoyable game. Though there is a lot of teasing, you don't jump to straight up fuck everything in sight, so there is a nice build up in the expectations. The models are great and the girls are likeable, tough they could have more work done in their personalities.
Needs some small corrections in the writing and punctuation, but is not too immersion breaking.
Some events seems a little disjointed in the story telling, like the younger sister randomly appearing at his school and he never bothers to ask her what is she doing there (later she volunteers that info).
As some other reviews say, the sex scenes could have more input from the mc as to what is he feeling.

Honestly i just love the game from the story and the funny ass moments in dialogue that arent too over the top but is what youd expect from a guy when responding to certain scenarios one of the shower scenes dialogue is fucking comedy gold as hell i couldnt stop laughing for a solid moment and had me in tears. The renders are good quality with a good story balance between students acclimating to the character, and it has the right amount of story to sex or romantic episodes that keep good balance to where you wont be bored by a long winded story but also it is good for those that enjoy a good story without it being only a constant fuckfest to the point itd be better to just watch porn. This Dev has their shit right and id like to buy them a drink.

The story is pretty good, only guy in a school for witches, like the setup isn't unique it's something we've seen a lot (only guy in a school full of girls) the difference is the execution is done good here, all of the characters seem to be well written and they all seem to be into the mc (he's spraying good smells) but if I had one thing I dislike in this it's the teasing, I don't mind slow burns but God the teasing is pretty unreal, I've been playing for around 3 hours? Maybe longer and the MC's had sex with 2 girls (I think) like I said the story is done good but the teasing needs to be shot in the ass and thrown out the window, it's hard to choose a favourite so I won't

I subbed to his patron but I might wait until update 10 before coming back to this one

P.s don't make violet? A side girl, she's one of the more interesting girls so far, just my opinion, she'd be better as a main instead of a fuck buddy, fuck buddy's are really frustrating and I can feel there will be romantic vibes between them later but only teased, idk