Ren'Py - The Fallen Order: Zombie Outbreak [v1.1b] [RayAbby]

GoR only (despite not making sense in context) is a weird choice considering the gameplay itself is fairly bad.
It's not something to jork it to (given the GoR and the lack of eye candy inbetween) and it's not very fun to play, so what's the point?

Well... that is a tough one. I liked everything but the "gameplay" and that is a important part of any game. Lets go for the reasons why I think this game is bad, poor visual clues, there are A LOT of itens you need to interact and too few of them are well indicated. Just look and this forum and you will see the 13 bullets problem. That all would be excusable if it less important, it is not. Wanna see the end of the game better be ready to look at EVERY pixel in EVERY screen. Now this goes to the dev, if you are seeing this, what were you thinking? Either put a walkthrough in the game or some hints or something like that.

peak game ngl im totally biased cuz i love resident evil porn and i love games specially renpy games where you can actually play and its not just a visual novel everything about this game is great altough it not having a gallery is kinda a bum

Excellent concept and I get/sorta like the feel of it 'feeling' like an RE game but it does suck in any erotic game to get stuck or for it to 'feel like a grind' (there isn't any grind but getting stuck basically has the same reception). I think this can either be resolved by a 'cheaper' way which is a walkthru that many games have but I do think it'd lose a novelty to it. I do think especially if any kind of sequel were made or if the dev plans on making another game, the more involved but also I think better solution is to make integrate the game's eroticism into the puzzles. This would be a very specific and unique example but anything along the lines of this kind of thing like you enter a toilet stall and find suspicious hole on the outside of the stall, pointing the player to inspect inside the stall where they find like a mess of whatever writings on the walls and stains on the toilet and ground. Then maybe you encounter like a character who had to cut off his dick because it got bitten or something but he's in love with a female zombie of a supermodel/instagram model type and you need to (as a female character) need to find sperm to feed her in order to get the whatever item he has in exchange so then the player thinks about the gloryhole they inspected earlier and think that would be a place where there might be a used condom and lo and behold, they go there and there's a used filled condom with semen she can use to feed the female zombie. If you don't want it to be so direct/easy then you know can have like 2-3 other places where maybe she'd find it like maybe there was a semen bank but it's empty or unusable or something or Bob (whatever character) is the only character she knows who could provide it but he refuses because of how his character is written like maybe Bob is an ascetic or something.

Or a different example maybe you have some idk hole or like certain space that needs to be filled to get a door working or something and earlier the player went thru an abandoned college girl's room where there were among other like actually erotic/interesting things to inspect like maybe sexts or like fetish items hidden in areas or like pictures of the college girl (who is maybe not a zombie and the player might encounter later especially as a male protagonist) and also a drawer full of dildos and there's one in particular that's the one that'd fit the door or something. The important point is not feeling like you're kinda wandering not knowing where to look for the thing you need and instead having somekind of impression of at least where might be a place to look.

I do also think erotic games kinda always run into a problem when the reward system is thru losing/failing. So maybe idk this is a little more idk but maybe something like instead of getting the full scene when losing, instead it's like the full scene is unlocked by like unlocking bonus safes or like yea secret easter eggs to fill a video gallery and when you lose you only get either like the teasing intro or sorta an abridged version or first half of the scene. I also do think on a much more minor note 'you lose' is better than 'you failed'. Even though it's very minor, it fits an erotic game better like when people say 'I lost' when seeing like a particularly exciting look or fetish or whatever.

Positives:

- All work on animations are well done
- The motion, the texture of everything falls in place as it should,
- Script writing has had a lot of effort & good structure, the story to it is leading us on as it should.

Negatives:

- Finding items is a pain in the ass
- No clear hints to help with obstruct puzzles or find a particular part ( dont bother in asking for help )


So over all 3/5

just gonna wait for someones save so I can skip the wild goose chase.

I like the theme, but the game is currently not designed well in the sense that it's possible to just not be able to advance. During your first encounter with zombies, the game just tells you to shoot them. It later tells you to go for head shots, but at that point bullets are already spent and there literally aren't enough in the game to beat the next sequence where you need bullets. If the sex scenes were better I might bother to restart, but what I've seen so far has been really short before a game over screen. There's potential here, but the game needs to be playable and the scenes could use a bit more writing.

I love this kind of rape game, the game scene is great, character is good. hope there will be more game like this in the same mechanic, like overwatch. But there are too many zombie things in this game, but of course this is a zombie game, I still hope there are more humans sex.

And is it some delete in the new version? I remember there is some special forces when the game released.

Otherwise, the developer seems very active, frequently answering our answers.

This game has some great fets and ideas but it gets bogged down in subpar gameplay. The fights, sandbox clicking, game overs, they drag down how awesome it could be. It's hard to rate because the adult content is a 4 but when I'm skipping seeing the next hardcore sex scene because I don't want to play anymore that's not good. A lot of potential but I'll wait until it gets a gallery or tones back the grind. 2 stars with potential to be better if it was more enjoyable to play and fap to.

Ok I love this game it is right up my alley

I would prefer a warning when you could die, but better still you can’t die and you get raped many times until the zombies have had their fill, you could add an infection meter then die once you have been filled with much cum for example.

I would love to see mutations of zombies like two cocks beast or even zombie animals all wanting to reproduce with any women, zombie gangbangs no hole left untouched you get the idea – yes I know my kink is …….lol

Being of the much older generation some of the fights are annoyingly difficult so far, I have not been able to pass “the outside the garage with a hammer” I would like it to be either easier (slow down the timer option in preferences as an example) or/and skip combat entirely, this part is annoying me enough to stop playing the game for the moment as it is frustrating and I don’t need the stress lol

Add these and in my opinion, it will make it better for us slow coaches J

You have a great game here, well in fact you have several great games and I want to see much more keep up the good work.

Pros:
Characters look good
Animations are good
Lite puzzles to help it feel more RE

Cons:
It's not really voiced, just a little AI at the beginning and some moaning
It doesn't have a retry option if you die, you need to load a save

I think this game would benifit a lot from having a warning pop up saying when you'll die if you chose a certain option. Because most of the spicy content is locked behind options when you fail. So sometimes you want to fail on purpose. So I think it'd be good to give the player a heads-up. It could even be an option in the settings.

So the big deal breaker for me was the voiced tag. It's not voiced, not really, so that sucked a lot for me going in. That said, it does use AI, but only a little bit. I wish they'd double down and AI voice the whole thing and somewhat earn the voiced tag or just remove the voiced tag.

With AI tech being what it is today, the dev should use Ada and Claire samples from the games and let AI do the voices from their samples. But that's neither here nor there.

3 Stars for me, but mainly cause that misleading voiced tag.


v1.0
Review Update/Edit:

So it's been over a year and a half since I last played this game, and back then, this game was pretty early in development. It's been a long time, and the game has come a long way since then, so I decided to pick it back up again. Sadly, and for the first time in my history of writing reviews for games on F95, I have to lower the score I gave it last time. Down from 3 stars to 1. And, honestly, I wish I could go lower.

A lot of the problems I came across in my original review were things I assumed would be ironed out with time, since the game was early on in development, but after playing it again after all this time, I can see that didn't happen and there are even some new issues.

Let's start with the issues from before that still haven't been fixed or addressed.
The game is still tagged as voice-acted, but only has a grand total of 60 seconds of bad voice acting from an AI at the beginning. I assumed back then that the dev was planning to iron this out by making it sound better, or hiring a real VA, or just removing it, but none of that happened. It's still the same as back then. So much so, that I believe the dev forgot the game even has voice over at the start of the game, so they never bothered to go back and do anything with it.

It's also, like I said, maybe only 60 seconds of "voice acting." Back then, I assumed the dev would add more lines and perhaps move towards adding voice-over for the whole game, or at the very least for the h scenes, even if it was only AI. I would have been fine with that. I don't mind AI, when it's done well. That didn't happen. And I'm very disappointed.

What about character models and animations? I gave the game praise for this the first time around, because I had assumed the models and animations the game was showing us were first drafts, mach-ups, for what was to come, but I was wrong. For a game early in development, they were fine, maybe even promising, but for where the game is now, they're no good. Neither of these aspects has improved over all this time, and in some cases look rougher than before.

What about the puzzles? Back then, I thought they were a neat addition to help the game feel more like RE, but what I didn't mention back then was that I thought the puzzles were too difficult for an H game because I assumed the dev needed more time to tweak them and find the right balance. Sadly, that never happened, and they even went in reverse on this one. The puzzles are way too hard for even a RE game, let alone a h game. It's just not fun and not what I wanna do when playing an h game. It's not fun spending 20 minutes looking for a password by randomly trying to find what's even clickable in the environment and what's not, only to have to give up and then look for another 10 minutes online for the code in a sea of comments and codes for all the other password puzzles in the game, then to find it and unlock the "whatever it may be" only to find it does nothing and isn't important. It's not just "not fun," it makes me angry and frustrated. Two things I don't wanna be and shouldn't be while playing an h game. And I now believe they are only in the game to slow things down to a crawl and artificially inflate the play time, because without these puzzles, the game would be over in record time.

What about a retry option? Still no, after all this time. What I thought was a no-brainer and wouldn't even be an issue after the game had some time in development is still a problem to this day, which is shocking to me in a game where the main reward for playing comes from failing. The defeat/failure scenes are the game's bread and butter, and it still doesn't have any QoL feature surrounding it. It does have the built-in Ren'Py auto save feature, but that isn't anything the dev did, nor is that enough for a game like this. This is crazy to me.

What about some of the new issues that have been added since then? It's added a lot more content, but it's mostly lazy and uninspired one-scene h scenes with little to no dialog and over in a flash. This is something I noticed before when I first played the game, but I just assumed it was because the dev needs more time to add touch-ups. But man alive, was I wrong. Before, the game only had one or two h scenes to go by. They were lazy, but I thought it was because it was all the dev could do at the time, and these were the only scenes they could make, Now, and after having more time, the game only added more of these lazy h scenes. They aren't better in any way; there's just more of them now. The very definition of quantity over quality.

And another thing that I believe was added since the last time I played is paywalled content. This is something I hate to see in any h game, let alone one that I don't believe even deserves your money to begin with. All the top games here on f95 have already proven there's no benefit to pay-walling content. Nor do you need to do it to be successful. All content should be in the game for everyone, and it only hurts the game to do so, and that's coming from someone who likes supporting games. People who want to support, who like your game, are going to support either way, regardless. But locking off content from non-supporters is just going to further encourage them to not support the game. It's a lose-lose scenario for everyone and a bad and greedy practice for any h game dev and an instant red flag.

So with all that out of the way, here's my updated pros and cons.

Pros:
-RE parody

Cons
-no voice acting even though it's tagged as "voiced"
-bad animations
-terrible H scenes
-bad-looking models
-pay-walled content
-annoying puzzles
-no retry feature
-no QoL features at all


All and all, you want my recommendation?

DON'T PLAY THIS GAME!

Go play Bioasshard Arena [VersusX] instead. It's not perfect, but it's better than this if you need an RE fix.

Good interaction and immersive gameplay. I like the way the character can search the different areas for clues and quest items. Love the models and the animations are well done. My only complaints are once you get past certain "puzzles", there is no way to go back to the previous area as you advance and if you fail, there is no reset. If you did not save, you cannot retry and have to start all over again.