Ren'Py - The DeLuca Family [Season 1] [HopesGaming]

A decently made game in the mafia theme that through its good characterization has garnered a (maybe too) passionate fandom.

MC is a dude who suddenly finds himself employed by a Mafia family. We are witnessing his journey up the ranks while meeting the members.

The characters are its strong point with a distinct cast. Although I admit I don't see it as the pinnacle of character writing on here like many do. It has a weird mix of anime-type tropes and a mafia story and sometimes the two don't mess well. And while this is not the first game that does it, it always creeps me out when a character looks like a fully grown female supermodel and yet is written like a very inexperienced virgin who acts nothing like her supposed age. Especially in what looks like a modern setting and not the puritan era. Still the game avoids the trope of having a bunch of personality clones and the family members are different enough to have their own character.

The renders are decent and the models nice to look at. The gameplay on the other hand, is its weakest point. Tedious stat/money grinding that pads the game. When you take all that out of each release, the amount of actual story progression in each update is laughably little.

Even with that it would probably get a 3 star overall for me. But dev decided to take almost a year to update and when they did, it turned out a mechanical rework nobody really asked for (game was fine on the user end with its previous systems). A rework that added even more tedious padding in a game with story that was already moving at a glacial pace. I won't share my thoughts about the reasons but for that fact alone it gets a poor rating.

I will try to revisit it in the future, because the initial concept is good. As long as it makes it to a final product that is. Because at current pace, that's a task for the future generations.

7.1 update
Good rescue mission and rewards
Y like the new contract sistem .
The new gameplay it's good. Possible need little fix
The chibi was good.
New sides girls are hot.
Good update and good info

It's one of the best games I've ever played. I played for a second without blinking. Even activities to make money not boring for me. The characters are all very unique one by one. The music that plays on scenes fits beautifully on that scenes. In the game, the story is beautifully told without boring you. There's nothing wrong with game that catches my eye, and therefore there's nothing in the game I can disprogate. Thank you to everyone who made this game and made it happen.

nice renders and great history, its immersive and entertainment Luna is my favorite Dev keep it up the good work. One of the best that i played, sorry for mistakes in writting i not native english speaker

Best story based game out there, also i love the mafia theme
you should look at this game as more of a visual novel cause story is carrying it and as i said best story ever.
overall its amazing and everyone should play this.

First thing that impressed me when I started playing this game was the animations, it is not the usual 2 seconds animation that just plays in loop, it's almost like watching anime with 3d graphics. I really liked how unique the main and each characters' stories as well (especially Luna's, though I hate and condemn those people who did those things, it really made my blood boil) or maybe I am just being biased being Luna's fan. I can say that this is one of the best games that I have played so far and I can't wait for the next update.

3.5/5
the story is above, and developer writes pretty well but here is also the problem. The amount of reading is not supported by the amount of render. The whole game is spending time more on reading than appreciating the render. So maybe future could cut abit on the writing to make it more balance.

One of the best game on this site. I loved every character in this story, especially Luna... The MC is probably is my favorite mc in this site. He is so witty and bold. I am waiting for the next update to drop in...

After all this time, this is still an unfinished, sluggishly developed, poor in content, work in progress. And it’s not even an adult game (no lewd scenes). It is a boring, badly designed visual novel with terrible UI (interface), overly complicated gameplay, convoluted free roam section with noting to do (door opening simulator) to cover the lack of content, with no dialogue options, illusory choices and a pathetic loser as a MC.

The gameplay is the standard grinding that plagues just about every game. Slogging through badly designed interface and grinding in architecturaly challenged house to perv on some girls from time to time.

Story is badly written, childish cliche. It takes itself far too seriously for its content and seems to think it is revolutionary when it's actually droll. Every single character is two dimensional and shallow, weird for the sake of being wierd, eccentric or silly. They do not behave or talk like normal people. Progression of relationships is ridiculous and non-rewarding grind. Lewd themes are very childish, like none of the characters know what sex is and are teasing each other like it is elementary school. The choices you make don't really have an effect on the story or characters, so why even bother putting them in. The visuals aren't that good either as all girls look the same (like teens in anime).

MC is a constanly friendzoned loser, who risks his life on multiple occasions for a friendly hug and his actions as a mob hitman (in boring minigames) are completely detatched from the story where he is some servant slave who’s been made to live in someone else’s bathroom, for some reason.

Badly designed VN with a childish unfinished story from a bad developer even by adult game standards.

The vivid characters, the backstories, the slow seduction , it's just wow. The building suspense and slow relationship development with characters, its something to watch. Doing chores to gain favors that open up future possibilities presented in a very unique way.

Pros:

-Sexy, well-rendered women (especially for those who like asses)
-Other renders and scenes are complex and enjoyable to experience
-The story is the main draw here; an intriguing thread to unravel
-Clever dialogue and characters with unique personalities and interactions
-Nice interface, not too difficult to propel the story forward

Cons:

-None really

5/5 - would highly recommend for anyone looking to totally immerse themselves in a really interesting world of organized crime and the extreme personalities of those involved

Congratulations on the story. Unique and funny characters who know how to entertain you. For those who complain that there aren't any sex scenes yet, sometimes it's better this way, seen for how the characters are set,, it would be a shame to ruin the plot by running too much. Slowly the story continues, who knows what will happen! We hope well
Congratulations again to the developer. and then I see the protagonist as a fellow countryman of mine, perhaps because of the title who knows haha XD

This game is, for lack of a better word, brilliant.
Regarding the story, it sucks you in from the start, the characters are very well written, the world is awesome. The writing has been given a lot of attention and it shows.

The art is very good and the renders are very well done. The character design really good and most importantly, tasteful. Though to be honest, I'd probably play the game even if it had stickman figures (yes, I think the writing is that good).

Lastly, the gameplay is good and it serves the game well.

If you're reading reviews trying to decide whether you'll play this game or not, just download it without skipping the dialogue.

5/5. The writing is excellent and had a lot of impact to me (i.e. becoming heavily invested in the characters) coupled with the genre and humor it was very enjoyable and not like other VNs out there. The best example of this (which has been mentioned before) is the Luna path...the final part was a punch in the gut but coming out the other side you can't help but love her and what she had endured. Proud to support HG and excited to see where the story goes! Strongly recommend.

it took me 2 years to play this game because i kept forgetting that this game existed. And honestly, i regret for not playing it sonner.
the render is great, and there are scenes were is fantastic, the gameplay is just there but is not anoying, and the characters............
first off, i did not have much faith in them, there were charming, not gonna lie, but the new updates proved me wrong. It shows that the developer knows what he is doing and how he improved his ritting over time.

overall, support the developer, even if he takes a lot of time to make an update. He deserves more patreons.

fun game with a unique storyline. the characters are all fun and it makes progressing through the story fun and not feel like other games. The family relationship among the girls makes it fun to play regardless of the rewards. Looking forward to future updates. 8.5/10

Honestly a great story and at some scenes, I can't help it but smile or laugh and I don't think there are many games out there that would make me smile or laugh multiple time as I do for this game.

I 100% percent recommend this to everybody. There's some grinding to it but honestly, you can get it all done in the first chapter so it's no problem later in the future.

The story and characters are unique, sure, and the mob missions mini-game (if you can call it that) is a neat concept that I was digging but it needs major fleshing out.

The unfortunate issue is that most of this interesting (albeit very dark) story and atypical character design amounts to nothing more than a boner kill. And if you manage to stay aroused through hours of text and grind you'll find yourself out of luck because there's nothing to fap to in terms of H-scenes.

Even though there are fresh elements to this game I have to give it 1 star for having hours of gameplay but a dearth of sexual content. It terms of a porn game its 1 star, as a visual novel maybe a 5.

Its ok, while the world, the story and characters are interesting, unfortunately it is written like an anime. What i mean by that is that most of the time the characters talk a lot without actually saying much.
The other issue i have with this game is the lack of lewd content, this game is the definition of a slow burn. There are a few teasing scenes but thats about it, which is a shame because the girls are quite cute with well defined characteristics. Especially Luna, shes too cute, even if crazy sometimes.
The main character can be quite annoying, has a silver tongue, but all the training you do to complete missions have no impact on the story elements, and in these story moments the mc is always a weakling most of the time.
Overall its a recommend, a lot of story, good story, but not enough lewd content.

Came for pretty ladies, got hooked on story, stoped thinking about ladies in a sexy way. Story got really good, then sad (may or may not have cried) then forgot reason why I started playing in the first place, but now I'm addicted.