Ren'Py - Abandoned - The Gift Reloaded [v0.08b] [Mrzz]

Render 3/5
I have seen other games with better quality renders so imo this is not top quality but still acceptable.

UI 3/5
1. I personally prefer to have all interaction listed as icons, at the bottom of the screen or something. (Like High Rise Climb where you have circles which represent interactions). Just not a fan of clicking around the screen.

2. If you open an app on the phone, then you have to go back to the main phone menu in order to leave, which is kinda annoying. I would be nice to add a button that allows you to exit no matter which phone screen you are on.

Game Mechanics 2/5
1. I am really annoyed about the fact that you have to enter how many hours you sleep for.
2. Clara BJ scene should be redone imo, its pretty sad you can only see the back.

I only have to say that this guy fucked up with kidnapping because he takes away the two main girls and it's obvious he has no intention of returning them soon. This kind of thing might have been acceptable 3nd game but not here where it's clearly not near the end. To add insult to injury the game went from I'm gonna enslave the girls to it's sort of consensual. I get that Patreon is probably at fault and we need a new platform to support our creators but this wishy washy attitude is garbage.

this is the dream game for me , the renders are good , the story is great and it is an open world, what do i want more? it will be one of the best games out there for a long time all i hope that the dev keep woring on it so i can see this masterpeace finished one day.

This is the first time I felt miserable playing the MC of a game. The MC is the sickest asshole I've ever seen... I'm not sure what's going on in the writers head but the story of this game is totally fucked up - not in a good way, It's just horrendous bad. It's misogynous and has kinda hatred towards woman I guess or something else is bothering the writer of this story, at least that's what you get. This is NOT a typical slave game due MC's personality. He pretends to be a good person while doing fucked up things and at the same time you feel kinda fucked up too for playing such a crap game / story. Another problem is, the "Slaves" can't really decide how to call the MC sometimes they call him master, other times my lord or Sir etc... sometimes all in one fucking line which is distracting and extremely annoying. I'm not sure if there is a fetish for horrible stories but if you have one, you won't do wrong with this game.

This game has risen from the dead. It has give me hope for other games.
I give it 3 stars because i like the idea of rework the game adding some animations but there are very few of these though the game.
I love characters like the sister, the work partner and the boss daughter, but (personally) i don´t like the over sized parts of the body of other characters.
Despite i would like the idea of using the mind power to reset your relationships when something went wrong or to break preconceived ideas sexually speaking, i don´t feel very comfortable making every girl a slut against her will even having sex with others to get something good for you like a fucking whore.
Well i hope future updates will focus more on other things than prostitute your family and work teammates.

Okay, that game was the second I played - and I almost stopped playing VNs because of it. I kinda liked the first one, and this one was a huge setback. Thankfully I took a hold on it and discovered incredible gems since.

I don't even know where to begin. The story is ... Well, lets say it exists. But it's so dumb that it's not worth reading, though. Only bad reasons to take you from absurd fuckfest to absurd fuckfest.

So you're basically playing a dense scumbag. Everything he does is treating everyone like shit - but they seem to like it so it's okay, right !

On the sexual side, you get the classical twisted fantasies common in this world : you get to incest and screw everyone, that considers you their rightful master. It's not like it's even worked on... It's just rushed to sex all the way, you're a rapist motherfucker, and feel like one.

Honestly, I get why it can feel appealing for some people, but for me it was the most unpleasant experience.

For 0.06
Great render, great storytelling.
I despise free-roams with time as a variable since you have to waste alot of time and get frustrated for very little rewards per interaction.
but for now interactions are very simple.

One of most overated game in this site. Bigest problem with this game is most stupid story, even for porn game, but creator thinking that story is power for his game...

Story 1/10
Characters 3/10
Sex scene 4/10
graphic 4/10

Yes, this is the kind of game I've been looking for! Mostly! At the start at least

For once we have a straight-up mind-control corruption game. No Pick-The-Right-Choice-To-Make-Her-Love-You faffing about. This is a Instruct-Her-To-Obey-You kinda game.

For people who are not into making people do things they would not otherwise do against their will, this is not the game for you. For people who like this kind of thing (in fantasy, of-course, not IRL) then this is a rare beast, the kind of which I do not think I've seen before in this purity (though if people know of another, please hit me up as I've missed it!).

My actual score is 4.5, as the game seems to lose its confidence towards the end of the more recent updates (a little too much Niceness and asking the girls what they'd like to do, and even gaining permission to Instruct them (like, WTF?), but I have hopes the dev will turn it around.

All in all, a great game with good writing and only the occasional grammar error - very well done!

Review of v0.05

The Gift Reloaded is an interesting mind-control focused visual novel. By the end of the current content I was actually quite pleased with the game, but getting there was a little rough, almost quitting halfway through.

Visually, the game is good. The models are attractive and the render quality is acceptable. The sex scenes are okay but not very long and lack enough text description and dialogue to make them particularly exciting (in my book, renders should serve as a compliment to the written bits, which need to be well developed).

The female cast is varied and interesting, if a bit caricatured in personality.

There is an attempt at open-world, which I usually applaud, but ultimately I was glad when things dovetailed back into visual novel format. There just wasn't enough variety in the open world aspects.

My primary complaint, however, is the MC. Being a mind-control focused game, the MC is obviously not going to be a good guy, but he doesn't have to be such a childish prick. Indeed, it would have been a good choice for the author to give some agency to the player in how he treats his conquests because this could be done with a minimum of additional writing, zero additional renders, and yet significantly enhance the player's agency. Allowing selection of "pet names" in either direction would have helped with this as well, as the tone of a lot of conversations could be improved by just that one tweak.

Fortunately, once the story picks up near the end of the current content, and it IS an interesting story, the MC starts to act like less of a shit and I really started to enjoy the game. If things continue as they are now, I suspect I'll be upgrading this review to 5 stars by completion, and look forward to doing so!

Extremely well-made. Story is great, renders are great, animations are great (as of 0.5). Content releases are HUGE. Customization options are a big plus. Only real disappointment is the MC, who's pretty unlikable.

this game made addicted to adult games. Love the story, the art style, the conversations, and the personality of the MC. When i read about that it's resurrected i was so happy The sister is my favourite character, and sadly, she had almost no screentime in the last update, still this is one of the best game, in this site even if we count the open world games. I wait for the next update.

I am SOOOO excited to see this being picked back up and I LOVE where the story is going....keep keep keep it up I am definitely following this one. The graphics are amazing, I honestly got a little bored towards the end BUT that changed when I saw where the story is going. I just hope that this game is not dropped again and continues being made ...It has SOOOO much potential

Despite the linearity, the story is genuinely interesting (and usually I don't give a shit). The characters are all pretty distinct, in terms of looks and personality. H scenes are few and far between but are alright. Love this game.

Not great but not bad.

Pros:
Most of the characters have good build up and have good personality distinctions. The story and interactions with Clara was the best since you had many up and downs.

Cons:
Storyline is too linear. Every choice is just for a different minor scene.

Finished with ACT I but want a finished ACT II at least for next play through.

This game is really something else, if you enjoy menial tasks, with a monotonous grind, uninteresting characters, a hodge podge story and an mc that sounds like a self insert of someone who got picked on in grade school and is using this as some sort of therapeutic outlet, then this might be the game for you.

For a re-re-release I expected a bit more polish somewhere, but it's just an incohesive mess. The game tries to function as a lifesim while playing like a kinetic novel and both fall flat. Writing hasn't improved, if anything it's gotten worse somehow. There are many places that just seem tone-deaf, like the first slave had to be the black woman, fucking really? Okay that part made me laugh cause I was like this game is really going there? You have the mc bawling his eyes out cause he is an insecure shyboi one minute and then the next he is barking orders 'slave do this' and 'slave do that' and fix me some 'ham and eggs.'

Renders are inconsistent with quality that is all over the place at times. I just, play this if you are really really bored maybe, but I can't recommend this sober.

What I like in this game
-Great models of girls/women and their emotions look lifelike and real.
- The only model which lives something to desire is of Monicue, a black, big titted secretary. Her new get up, clothing ala lingerie which she shows at work is simply awful. All else? They look great, clothes and other things.
- animations.. live much to desire, there are simply not many things a man can do with beautiful woman at his disposal. Its damn dissapointing. Plus for that there are animations, simple but there are.
- what is the GREATEST asset of this game? PLOT! Really.. not that kind of plOt but real one. Deep sometimes, funny, weird or pervy.
- corruption of mind is done in nice way, its not simply click to corrupt but by ordering more and more of your subject. Its like peeling off persons inhibitors and increasing their dependence on MC
- MC is not a walking potato or is too handsome. Normal lad, with bigger than average dick
- MC thinks, not much but still thinks
- Characters have some personality, with time we discover more of their talents or toughts
- MC at the start is horny dick, but with time grows up as a man so his decisions are less and less like a villain but more like a hero which is nice

What I would like of this game in new arc?
- Less linear plot, by which I mean more freedom of choice, more options to choose from in bed/kitchen/shower/basement etc. etc. , walking to town which was never actually implemented or needed, better animations, clicking on a character in said room is more easy to understand and beautiful than buttons which cover major part of screen panel. Better yet if some options were impossible to choose like you cannot corrupt a character, said button would dissapear. Cannot talk with them, button dissapears. Sounds simple to implement, but I cannot really tell tough. Real day to night cycle, not a laggy, buggy transition from day to night, there are much more points in a day. Less random appearence of characters in locations, to bump on someone showering. You needed to go in and out till you bumped on them. So track system which tells where to find them on said hour or something similar would be great. More random small events, which adds to life of Mc and his harem. Like helping them with stuff or something.
Mc starts a clinic where he uses his power to help people and earn some money, if some woman/his client is beautiful. Corrupt her, make her part of his harem? His power of suggestion, manipulation could actually help people with depression, suicidal toughts etc. etc. It appears that its a great way to make money out of it and do something good with it at the same time.

Mc needs to learn if his power work on men, so loyal men could be nice as bodyguards or for other purpouses. If some players wants to be cucked, it appears that is a way to accomplish it without forcing NTR on players.

In summary, version 0.05 is still an introduction into actual game. Its nice, shows the Games potential. Which is not small by the way. Its full of small things that could be done better, but I am glad that Dev returned to this title and wants to continue to make it even better. I hope that many will find this game great as I did

It's rare a game found here is anything more than fap material but damn this game is really something else.
The first version was nice but the "new" reloaded is so much better !


The story isn't just something like the typical "you are a man that live with *insert female family member* and now your goal is to fuck them all" No the story is really interesting with some twists and a dark plot at the point that the adult elements are almost something to enhance the game and not the main objective.

The renders are really good, the characters are all well written with each a different personality and are very intersting.

However there are some downsides :

As for now (V0.05) the game is too linear and lacks choices to make, hopefully this will be fixed in the next versions with the open world, and the story is a bit too dark sometimes, especially towards the end of V0.05.

If I could I would have rated 4.5 stars but instead I still gave 5 because this is a really good game and it's a great thing the dev was able to come back and realease V0.05 so soon after his return. I'm really looking forward to the next update.

Rating this game 5 stars. Yeah like in any other game it is not perfect and could use some improvements, graphics as well as animations. But the power you have to control your family and people around you is awesomely implemented. The story is interesting enough to keep you playing without trying to guess what to do next. Hopefully 4game will be updated every month.

This game is very excellent so far, but I say that having never played the original version. The plot has some moral issues for me but we'll get to that.

My main issues with the game play itself is actually that there is any choice in where you go. Navigation to "other places" seems almost worthless other than to try to catch someone in the shower and play out that scene, or the spying at night. The main characters never have anything new to say. Progression of days means almost nothing without scripted parts being there. So the corruption of people could have been done entirely through scripted sections.

I'll give my best example: After a while, you're able to have a conversation with the mother where she asks if you want to take your relationship with her to the next level. I agreed to. Then after the conversation, I went to find her in the house. Conversation: Nothing different. No actions, no ability to ask her something new. You do get some difference in conversation choices when you have fully corrupted someone but after that has happened, nothing ever changes again.

Story: Very excellent and incredibly believable idea of how someone would react to gaining the ability to control others. At first I believe his actions were used with the ideas of bettering his life but there are things that happened very quickly that made me realize how right his sister was to hate him. This character has no remorse. He's basically a sociopath. He made a friend at work day one, Clara. She was nothing but nice to him and liked having him around. Within a week of having his powers he was trying to whore her out in order to keep his job. Having no care about her feelings.

When he had almost corrupted both her and Monique completely, he had them to a point where they were not only in love with him, but 100% loyal to him. But that wasn't enough, he had to enslave them and remove their free will. He erased everything they were as individuals and deemed them only worthy to serve his ends. They no longer have personal desires or dreams, they are now shells playing pretend they are the same people they used to be. That moment in the game sickened me to be honest. He is no better than the good doctor (villain) who enslaved his subordinate the second he gained powers.

I find myself hoping that somehow Victoria is the hidden hero of this game who will remove both their powers and undo the damage they've both done.