Ren'Py - Abandoned - The Guy in Charge [v0.21] [totallyoklad9348]

review based on 0.21 version
its not objective review, cuz im a fan of such games
PRO:
- good art
- almost no bugs
- almost no story... yeah its a plus for such games
- game almost done (near 95-98%) and fully playable till endings
- good endings variety - karen/nicole have all normal/ntr and normal/preg endings combination
CONS:
- ui from 2018-2019 games... oops, game from 2019... ok dev could improve ui in 20,21,22... what i mean? i mean- ugly dialog "talk/peek" in empty room.
- event system- i mean 1 daily event per day, so player must skip dozens days to empty queue(if u feel stuck- just try to skip some days till no daily events)
- abandoned... its real saddness, cuz in game only not emplemented harem ending(all events in that chain 100% done)... and mby some ui rework

if u wanna play good "oldschool" game- its ur choice, game almost complete(near98%+)- only harem ending unemplemented

The Gameplay is Terrible
Story = ?????
The characters are so "dry" there's no feeling, no emotion, no passion, nothing
grind grind grind, get more points, get more scenes, grind grind grind
repeat scene repeat scene repeat scene
animation is like 3fps I sleep
renders are not so bad, could be better though
there are like 2 characters and one cuck, all with almost no dialogue and worst character development possible, there's some included "dlc" characters more but meh
Lazy job the man just use same scenes cut into parts and change clothes, I sleep, just horrible, wasted my precious time.

The character design is really nice in this game. I only played half of the game because i really don´t like NTR content, but the half that i played had a decent story line. The fact that you can choose how to play this game(with the content you want) is appreciated by some players i suppose (including me)

Nice game..

Not a pure visual novel.. You go between a set of locations and choose interactions, and need to figure out how to trigger the story to progress. But there's in game cheat functionality to cheat in money, and there aren't too many combinations, so I'm thinking most of you shouldn't get stuck to find one of the endings at least..

The quality of 2D graphics is fairly decent. Good enough to be hot and sexy, though a bit away from top notch. Most "animations" are simplistic switching between two images, so not real animations, but I guess that is how the developers has managed to stuff in the amount of different scenes. There are a few proper animated scenes though, as the first time you fuck the mother. Many of the scenes go through 3 different stages, depending on how hot your relation is..

Can be a bit of a tedious grind. The sister seems to need more grind to get there than the mom. But use the phone icon to watch changes in relations, so you find what things doesn't improve relations anymore, so you can just skip time to go to what does.. Also, seems like a lot of the triggers come when you sleep on the couch, so don't keep sleeping with the girls all the time after you unlock that..

It could of course have been better graphics, better animations, more stories and variations, but that would require much more work on the dev side. I'd say this game is good, and a good compromise of effort to get it to the current state in reasonable time..

Oh.. One side note.. First playthrough said yes to help Devon with mom.. Which I didn't end up enjoy as he was taking over all encounters leaving MC as spectator.. Was expecting he to just interrupt once in a while or giving me the choice.. Ended up going back to go other way.. Dunno if it would end up less annoying later on..

This is a great game, marred by poor pacing and grind. Sandbox games always suffer from a poor playback loop, they always require ludicrous amounts of money for often no real reason other than to force you to grind it out to progress. Reduce the money requirements, reduce the Affection and Lust grind, because that just forces you to endure repeating scenes that I just CTRL click through because it is not new content beyond the first time you see it.

Sandbox can work, but you need to put the effort in to make varied scenes between milestones, repeating scenes i boring and reinforces the grind it mars what is otherwise a great game.

Also the Harem route grind is far worse than the NTR grind, and I enjoyed the NTR route far more than the harem route. With that said the renders are great, mom looks amazing so does Ana, the other two are fine but those two are beyond good.

I really want to praise the NTR route and even the opportunity to share with Devon that is cool and leads to fun interactions. How and kinky and just another level of depraved but it seems to run out because I never saw us having sex with her together unless I missed that content.

It has the potential to be a good game, the renders are ok, the script is very simple and a beautiful milf.
The problem as many have already reported is the sandbox and the damn grynd.
Devs should know that people don't have 10 hours a day to play their games.
Eliminating some grinds this game easily gets to 4, 5 stars, but currently I can't give it more than 3.
Don't try to play without cheat mode, it's impossible.
Sorry. English is not my native language.

4 outta 5

GRAPHICS:
renders are generally good. The models are sexy as they should be.
The outfits look good on the characters and the backgrounds fit with the game nicely.
There is a lack of animation tho.

STORY AND DIALOGUE:
Story is okay. Could use some polishing. Major gripe is I don't like how shitty the MC is at spying on ppl. There's definitely some dope baby making scenarios material there. Just needs fleshed out more. Continuity needs some work too.

AUDIO:
N/A , it has audio, I just have a habit of playing on silent. So I can't rate it.


GAME MECHANICS:
Can be grindy as fuck , between earning money for both girls. Also earning lust,relationship points . Honestly the cheats menu in the phone , is your best friend.
Needs to do a better job at informing players of the requirements to progress, outside of the sleep to the next day part. Especially since there is harem, normal(one girl) or ntr and sharing paths. Wish the pregnancy mechanics changed to chance percentage once MC or Devin talk to them about birth control. (example: cum inside till you hit the required number of time to trigger talk, then pregnancy chance triggers from there on)

CLOSING STATEMENTS and HOPEFUL WISHING:
this is project I got hope for. The ground work is there and I hope the DEV sees this thru to the end. Hope to see the full pathing treatments (alpha,harem,share,ntr,pregnancy) to all 4 current girls. Would love to see the girl at your job get added to the mix that way even if you mess up at home you got your work girl or Devin can fuck up your work life too. Maybe even a second rival to add more story .
All in all it has potential and has a soft spot in my porn filled heart.

Hmmm.....sigh!

This game has all the puzzle pieces to be a solid 4/5 good game, but sadly in my view, failed when putting the puzzle together.

You have 3 paths (I played the non NTR/Non sharing path for now)

The story is decent (Not great, but pretty good)
The renders are solid
The girls are pretty
There are a lot of nice sex scenes (And I only played the one path, so I assume it will be ultimately 3 times this number)
Animation is meh (2 frames) and no sound.

So what's wrong with it?

The execution of the sandbox elements were poorly done in my view.

In general, I do not have issues playing Sandbox games. Big Brother, Man of the house, Cure my addiction, Lucky Mark and many more are examples of sandbox games I really enjoyed.

My biggest pet peeve when playing a sandbox type game is continuity. For instance a girl telling you of for seeing her in her underwear in on scene, but you are already having sex in another.

"The guy in charge" Is actually not that bad in the continuity department, BUT the introduction of the pregnancy section were poorly done.

The other aspect of the game is the main mechanic. I did not pick this up initially, but towards the end it becomes very apparent. Moving the story forward always occurs after you go to bed and the introduction of these story elements can feel completely out of place. For instance, you can sleep with your sister, then wake up and doing a whole sequence with her on the beach and then ends up with her being asleep in her bed again.

What's even worse is the individual scenes does not progress separately, so once you can have sex with say Nicole, you jump to having sex with her in all her scenes. And then the story only progress every morning, but non of the other scenes change throughout the day.

So it becomes:
See what happens with the story in the morning. Skip through all the content for the day as fast as possible to get the the next morning again to see what happens next. Repeat until the game is done. This has the net affect of making the daily actions in the game extremely repetitive and boring.

This is such a pity since I felt this have the making of a solid game, but became a bit of a mess when putting everything together.

Still a nice game to play.

TLDR; The game had great potential (Good renders, decent story, plenty of sex, good characters), but somehow when putting everything together it just fell flat.

It's hard to encounter such an exciting experience in real life. This is also the best place of the game! Unfortunately, there is no more content to share. I hope there is a sharing route to share end. Competitive pregnancy sounds very interesting. The insult of NTR route is not enough. MC should enjoy be in a cuckold. Thank for creating a wonderful story and hope next update will coming soon. good luck !

Version: v.018

PROS:
- Good Renders (especially Nicole's model)
- Relationship involvement
- Slightly good scenes
- Cheats (but there is a warning that using it may corrupt your game)

CONS:
- Poor/bad NTR
- Boring Sandbox
- Repeatable
- Moderately tiring gameplay

Review:
This game could be amazing if there wasn't an empty style. A typical incest game a little different from the rest, the MC's mother doesn't look 20 or 30 years old and the sister doesn't look like a young 18yo. For some this is good, for others not so much and for me it doesn't matter. The NTR of this game is so bad I don't know what the purpose was, you don't feel challenged or you don't feel a challenge if you're going to want to share the girls afterwards or not, I say this because the MC's father (Devon) act like a cuckold, honestly, it's like he's an figurant for another figurant, as if I didn't have importance in the game, you see?

History:
Could be better if the ambiance was a little more extensive. There are only two girls that you can interact with which are Karen and Nicole (there are others too but not enough content). I like games that contain relationship involvement, where you progress little by little until the naughtiness emerges, but I feel that in the story there could be a little more, unfortunately I didn't get very far.
Gameplay:
The UI should be better. I've seen many simple games with a more organized UI, but that doesn't mean it's bad or totally unplayable, but I felt a little discomfort. The MC works to make money, but buy what? you just give your money to your sister and mother. Events take place at specific times. The MC has to grind to increase affection with girls or friendship with Devon and you keep repeating this process.
Graphics & Sexual Content:
The graphics are reasonable and Karen and Nicole's renderings are good, especially from Nicole for being one of the best. Yes, it may sound silly but she's not ugly and she's not that pretty either. She's a perfect fit for a real-life woman without that magazine cover model look and she has a great body render. But, Anna looks like a bimbo, huge boobs, huge body... and Karen a great 50 year old render's woman. Talking about the sexual content, the scenes are good, although I haven't seen them anymore because I ended up giving up on playing. Unfortunately in this part I don't have much to say, I didn't get to the pregnancy and Nicole's content.

Why I did gave 1 star?
I know it seems unfair to give a low 1 star rating, but I spent hours grinding until I got to the point of giving up. It is mandatory to use a walkthrough (something I didn't use at the beginning), because without that you will be stuck not knowing what to do. The game doesn't have a favorable interface but it's not complicated either. I mean, mechanics that could be improved, content that could be placed, like more girls and places, have fewer options to grind in the point relationship and have a slightly more constructive story. I don't mean the game's story is bad, but what bothered me was this Devon, it's not because of NTR, is that.. fuck god, is a fucking useless character. About empty sandbox, yeah, there is no open world, no interesting gameplay mechanics and there is not many characters to interact with.
The Guy in Charge it's not a bad game, but it's a game that gives you little discomfort and gives you a blueballs sensation. I recommend testing, but only if you use walkthrough and cheat stats.

I think Devon should have been the MC's friend setting at first.
And he shouldn't live with the MC.
NTR in this game has no tension at all.
So it's not attractive and it's suck.
There's not much to do.
If you're just kind, you get love, if you're unkind, you'll lose your love.
That's all.
I want to ask the NTR fans.
Is this style of NTR really good?
The MC's mother and sister are neither hidden nor ashamed.
Whether the main character sees it or not, they have sex with Devon. Like an animal.
I like NTR, but NTR in this game isn't exciting.
NTR without competition is just rubbish.
That's my personal opinion.

This goes for the v0.18 version of the game.

The history is (to me) boring at some points and interesting at others. I played this game in the harem alpha route,I didn't want to play the NTR route after knowing why the MC was sent away .

The models and scenes are good and sexy some times there is a bit of clipping and lights and shadows problesm but nothing that will bother anyone.

In the sound department I can't say anything of the music I always turn it off and the sounds on the sex scenes are a bit bad honeslty.

About the characters, I don't have any complains about the sister she is by far my favourite of this game, the mother starts , I can't say anything about the brother I compleatly ignore him the entire game, the aunt and the mothers lawers have far too little content but both of them are pretty promising and finaly the MC he is lickable but some times I wanted to slap him because of things he said.

The grind part I personally didn't found it boring but it can really get tiring at some points so maybe the dev should lower them a bit.

The exploring is so far the most boring part of the game if you play without the mod (until you get used to know where is each one at x time of the day)

For those (like me) who dont want to play the NTR there is a lot of content in the alapha route and its incredible easy to avoid it (even tho a turn on/off option could make playing the game easier fot both routes) and for those who likes NTR this game is for you too (as I said I dind't played it but I took a look at the mod gallery and there is plenty of content in that route too) maybe the "route" that suffers the most is the sharing one in both alpha/NTR routes it has way too little content for those who like to share the LI.

I recomment this game it is a pretty solid game with some (this is my opinion) flaws that doesn't make the game bad. Thanks for reading this review I hope you have a nice day.

Enjoyed this game despite it's flaws. Mom and sis are hot and the dialogue is well done and hot in the sex scenes. There is a good amount of content and games like this with a tight focus on one or two relationships are a nice change of pace. The NTR is completely avoidable for those worried and the structure of the game allows for some flexibility in path choice. The game does a really great job of balancing the path content too. The game could benefit from a hint system and some gameplay variety. Once you reach a certain point all new content is triggered by the same action which becomes kind of tiresome, the game could also benefit from a hint system, although things aren't really that difficult to figure out. finally the sex scenes could use some work and perhaps a bit more length. Overall a really nice incest game that is definitely worth a play.

it is ok vnish* sandbox with location tracking and some datesim stat grind**
(especailly if you want to take a rest from classic sandboxes with some meticulous walkthroughs reading, npc tracking and quests completing )

* so it incorporates some vn approaches: dif pathes (mom) and points for answers (not sure if it affects pathes though)
...were there bad endings as well. not sure? (so save from time to time)
** i dont like when people throw the word grind all the time. but here it fits perfectly. but nothing scary. you can keep going in a rather brainless manner and get there. (or use cheats. i dont know if it wil cause some bugs, so prolly avoid insta raising npcs' stats to max. get a half with natural clicking)
though it feels like there are other counters (thus repetitions) you will rely upon later...rather than location and time sensitive interactions.

renders. id say average. (those mom's knees and elbows, come on, is she 60?)
sometimes smooth animations.
transition between buildup and xxx content is very thin. first you have troubles squeezing any lewdness from fems then you find yourself drilling em in every location.

Painfully slow grind with little pay-off. The path for both girls is practically identical. If this were they 90's, they'd just be a palette-swap. The story is meh. Finding the right time of day and place that you need to be in order to advance the story for each of the 4 or so 'phases' of relationship that each girl goes through is a slog. Often, the story fails to advance simply because you didn't sleep in the 'right' bed, which is infuriating once you figure it out.

Overall, boring and frustrating.

The game has potential but the timeline of events is off. 1 play through i'm having sex with karen then at night she is pregnant then in the morning she has morning sickness then after bfast she is saying she has the stomach flu by noon at the pool she is showing . then 2nd is timeline when Bro gets kicked out but then sis wants to know whats going on days later

The game has a valuable cheating possibility, by which it is to be hoped to play the complete genre of the recent version. Everybody hopes in completion of the game considering a Nicole ending, a harem ending, a commune ending, and pregnant endings respectively etc. The threesome event is a secondary thread, and it is grinding to discover of it's end.

I don't really know why I write this because noone would even bother to read. Personally I would rate this game 4 but for some reason this game has low rating so I rate it 5 for justice. Yeah game has its flaws. For no real reason you need to grind some money and swim in a pool but this is rather minor disturbance, you need 10-15 minutes for this. For cons this game doesn't try to add more and more characters, there are only 3 npcs that is why there is a lot of content. So yeah, nice game.

This is more a review of the NTR route than anything else, so if you don't care about that then disregard my review.

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Brilliant models and a good concept, but it's totally underutilised here because the writing is just dull.

First, the good. The sex scenes are decent to look at, again, the models are great and I appreciate there was an attempt to add animations. The format of the game resembles some other popular favourites here on F95; one house with each room selectable from the bottom of the screen and a slot for the few outdoor locations in the game. The game is stable and renp'y is the right choice for this type of game, which some people still manage to fuck up so good job dev.

Now my extended treatise on what this game does wrong and needs to do to stand with the greats.

The game needs to be spiced up and some of the scenes rethought to build tension, otherwise all you have is a grindfest where you're searching for the next nude scene. There's an incest NTR route, but to watch the scenes you wouldn't know it's completely taboo because the plot doesn't do anything interesting with it or fully exploit it. What do I mean by this? By the time Devon has stolen the mom she acts like he just picked her up somewhere and they have to hide it for some reason. The game doesn't do enough to establish her maternal relationship to the other characters so it's not as exciting when lines are crossed. When she acts cruelly towards the MC and is acting slutty it doesn't really have any impact because it's so rapid and in your face (more on that later). It would work much better if she was reluctant at first or made vague comments, then progressed to comparing the sons and slight favouritism. They need to have group interactions for this to work. From here, she could become more sexual, but her position as mother shouldn't be ignored. If incest is in the game, make it part of the fantasy and have it more heavily affect how/what she does and says in the sex scenes. She should still treat Devon like her son to some extent and this would contrast well with his sexual dominance of her. The mom choosing one son over the other and even getting pregnant is never really played up in the way you might expect (and hope). There's no subtlety or build up. You just get the stats and a bunch of scenes appear and there's no real payoff. If pregnancy is the climax of the game, it needs to be dramatic and it would help to have a dedicated scene for impregnation once it's unlocked.

Back to what I said about quick escalation: some people have already noted that you can grind points in this game and have scenes come all at once. I'm not sure this design is the right idea, but I can understand there needs to be a way of pacing scenes and giving the player something to do. People complain but if the story and scenes are good, the grind is a small price to pay. I would note; I'm not yet sure if this system too heavily affected my perception of events in the game. I've tried to consider the events themselves to counteract this.

This might be pushing things too far, but if the dev could add some basic sound effects - I've always found doing this to be a big gain for little effort - that'd be cool.

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There's potential here and the quality of existing assets is impressive. If there could be a rethinking of the narrative and dialogue, with some scene tweaking, I'm sure this game could be a favourite.

I must say this game suffers from the pitfall of the "grind house" syndrome -- it is repetitive and formulaic. Every action for advancing the plot in the early stage is uninteresting, several important parts of the game is gated after a tremendous amount of in-game monies, and the progression is uninspiring.
I am, however, very pleased to see a game with actual sharing. I feel this should be a natural conclusion of incest games. Why must the father always be dead or missing? Why must your brother be a competitor? The natural conclusion to the genre should be "in the family", not "against the family".
Nevertheless, there are still issues involved -- like when "mom" is apparently eager to join the party with the "brother" when the MC suggested it the first time, but somehow when the "sister" wants to join in, there's this long plot line for her to come to terms with it. While it can work, such as if the "mom" has been portrayed as more hesitant in same-sex sexual relations, this is not the case, and she resisted it on the grounds of not wanting to commit further incest (what?)
However, I believe in the potential of the game's directions, and it can be greatly improved if the dev's philosophy of the gameplay is more fun-oriented.