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

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.

Game version: [v0.12]

Another game that would have made a decent visual novel ruined by sandbox "gameplay." The story and characters are as cliché as they get, but that's fine, the dev knows what type of game he is making and we know what we're here for. Absent son returns home to lonely, sexually frustrated mom and bitchy slut sister. No innocent virgin sister this time, but a brother who wants to cuck you, so there is some originality at least. The NTR is completely avoidable so no reason to be upset. The impregnation aspect gives it some extra spice.

The renders are pretty good and the character design is porn-y but still grounded in reality. Mom actually looks like an older woman, albeit a very fit one with huge tits. Sister has an appropriate bitchy teen look, complete with resting bitch face. Even the MC's model is a good choice, you don't look too old or too young or too ridiculously ripped, basically a decently fit dude in his early 20s. He does have a huge dick, but it's not so comically big that it breaks immersion, like in some other games.

The writing is good enough and makes the dialogue feel pretty natural. Sex scenes are hot and plentiful, the problem is actually getting to them. The amount of needless clicking, grinding stats to unlock scenes, repeating scenes to unlock scenes and searching for which character is where at what time to get a new scene is ridiculous.

This game could be improved a lot by ditching the sandbox elements or making them a lot more intuitive. Icons on the rooms, showing who is where would already save you from half the clicking in this game. I feel like most of my gameplay was constantly cycling through rooms to find a specific person.

### ALL OF THIS APPLIES TO 0.12 ###

Pre Scriptum: The review is at the bottom, green "header".

I understand why some people have reviewed this negatively. And let me tell you. It's not the grind. It's the lack of game mechanics explanation.

Don't get me wrong, it's a bit of a click fest, and there's a bit of scene repeating. But it's not bad, and it's renpy, just skip seen text. Who cares.

### HOW FUCKING STATS WORK ###

Now with that out of the way, I will explain the mechanics so you don't get stuck like the other non-programmer plebians

You have stats, at version 0.12 they never decrease, only increase. Stats such as love / lust / physique / work ethic / massage.

The cast doesn't particularly like you and you are broke. If all you do is wander around the house, trying to speak with people, you will just increase their "Love?" stat or "hey, I've met you b4" stat. And you can get it very high, and it will actually fuck you over later in the game. So don't do that excessively at first.

Next is physique. To put it short, your mom and sis only want to suck your cock if you have a 6-pack. So get that physique to 20 asap.

Work ethic goes to about idk 40-ish, comes with increase pay, and matters in some encounters.

Love goes + or -, no need to worry, it says which is which on the tooltip. Minus seems to be for the cucks, plus for the harem boys. Parenthesis: Why can't anyone make a good Bull game? where you cuck your brother by fucking your mom? That would be so fucking cool. Oh well, I digress.

Other than those stats, and some massaging, everything is special flags for encounters.

### PLAYING THE GAME ###

Number of days almost doens't matter. It's not a timer, but the reverse. It doesn't let you get to the good stuff too early. You absolutely don't need to worry about this, the first days are about getting them gains, and stacking stacks, getting them benjies.

So let's break stuff down. Start the game, have 0 physique. Talk to everyone in every instance, but only once, to see the dialog and get a feel for how your relationship is progressing.

Then work out like a madman, and get physique to 20.

After that work your soul away at the diner till you have a work eithc of >40.

Now that you have money and abs, bitches will be drooling for your cock, including momy and sissy.

Start talking with them in their diferent environments, don't forget about mom's workplace (about 16.00) and going to the beach (you meet them at specific times in the day. Just save, go a full day to the beach, see the hours, load).

So this is your current situation. You have more than enough abs (nothing under +10 abs-power does anything, nothing over +20 helps ... at this point in time). You have enough money to make them bitches WETT. YOU GOOD MA BLACK PERSON.

Now all that happens is that their "I know who you are" stat goes up, the lust goes up too because of your dick abs. You have money for special encounters. Everything is fine. You'll get more and more juicy scenes, and they come in rapid fire if you do it like I've said.

### How the other weebs failed at the game ###

They probably went about and explored, increasing dick abs +1 a day or so, not knowing that there's hardcoded thresholds. Nothing under +10 dick abs does anything.

And then, yes. The game meanders a lot.

Actual review, lmao

Idk why I've been a bit "playful" with this review. The game just put me in a good mood, NGL.

The game is good. Don't get me wrong, it has a cuck route, so it's questionable. But if you hetero (this is a joke, don't cancel me plz) - then the love route is _amazing_.

You start as a black sheep, coming back after several years away - presumably you had some hand in your father's death. But no time to mourn, you got some family members to impregnate! (if you mod the game, that is. Out of the box, it's some landlady BS or some such, idk).

After you read my mechanics guide and ABSOLUTELY DO WHAT I TOLD YOU TO DO, OR ELSE YOU'LL HATE THE GAME - things start rolling.

You get closer to your family, things actually become quite fucking sweet. Your mom is a bit of a tipical overworked milf that needs a man in her life.

Your Sister is a tipical tsundere "IT'S NOT LIKE I LIKE YOU OR ANYTHING BAKA!". At first very hard on the tsun; later very hard on the "impregnate me nee-chan!"

Luckily for you, your dick abs do all the heavy lifting and things progress smoothly and fastedly ™

Don't get me wrong. This game is not a "believable scenario", or a "slow burn". Which I give mega props for.

I don't want a believable story about how I fap on my mom's tits for months on end, and piss in my sis's coffee until they decide they want my dick. No. I want them to be into me (the mc, so yes, me), just need the slightest push and they just gobble my cock. It's as it should be.

But the story is good. In the sense that the characters are well enough fleshed out, they are lovable. It's downright romantic and cute at moments.

Strongly recommend.

That being said. The negative: The content isn't exactly properly gated. That sounds like a good thing, right? Ungated content. Well, it means you miss stuff. If you forgot about a scene, like massaging mommy dearest; and u maxed everything your second massage could end up with straight up anal, instead of some light inner thigh massaging. Just an example, I'm not sure exactly how the flags are on everything, but a lot of things are like this. This can be mitigated with the cheat screen intentionally reducing stats ... but it's not your fault, it's the game's fault. So it sucks on that end.

Post Scriptum

The fact that this game has a single script file, of 25k lines ... does leave some doubts about the devs abilities in my mind.

Hope he manages to build the game without it becomign a convoluted mess.

That being said, the code is decent enough. And tidy enough that it's not a yandere dev disaster waiting to happen. That being said, I would hope he learns about "using different files to group logic and events" and maybe "state machines, lmao. This whole game is a state machine. Please read about them".

<3

I would like to first state that I cheated a lot with cash/lust/love points to skip the grind because that is my only issue with the game at hand.

The mom and sister duo are nice and its fresh to have a milf in the story that actually looks like a mom. Great renders, decent animations, two different paths.

The NTR path is pretty intense since they are both doing their best to kick you out by fucking right in your face. You can also have a sharing path and regular love path so the more options is always a good thing.

The concept is a typical "caretaker"" love" story with possible NTR,
but its more than decent and enjoyable game.
the UI is easy to navigate.
the character design is sexy.
the scenes are sexy.
there are hints which is always nice.
only problem is that the paths choices arent clear.
it does promote you with "here you gonna choose a path" and some paths are easy to guess but some of them are ambiguous.

Really wanted to like it but even with cheats the game is extremely repetitive.
It's like stretching 1 hour of good gameplay into 10 hours.
I don't understand why some devs make games like these.
Open world is only a good option when it's full of content.

this game has potential can you make more content please and make the ntr route more and can you make intersting ideas to the game for now its ok to play if you do more update the game will be on top

It's not grindy, it's poor game design.

I would never actually give a game 1 star, especially if I've played it multiple times but honestly, if it wasn't for the CG, I wouldn't even bother with this game.

Story:
It starts off as a fairly normal cliché "landlady" story, for a week or so, then you realize that you have already consumed most of the content and there is no story left after the "sleeping on couch", only random isolated stat-checking scenes which feel like different games of their own.

Gameplay:
I have no idea where to even start with how much of a mess the gameplay is so I'm just gonna directly address what I think:
Almost every game design choice is bad here. In fact, this should have never been a game in the first place, the kind of content and storyline the developer wants to produce would only make sense in a visual novel.

The whole "location" and "exploration" makes no sense whatsoever: There are 3 characters in the game besides the MC (2 if you're not going for the NTR route). You're exploring the whole house and some places in the city to find 3 characters. Blows my mind that the developer never thought of how boring it might get for the player.

As a lot of people have pointed out, you have to repeat a lot of scenes in oder to raise your stats and even with cheats it's a pain in the ass. Again, I have no idea why stats even exist with only 2 characters the MC wants to date, it could have easily been simple dialogue-based progression instead of using detailed stats like games with 10+ romance options do.

I have played grindy games and this is not one, this is just poorly thought out game design.

There is no difference between changing the stats by cheating and actually repeating the scenes, no grindy game does that as there is progression involved and every time, you get one step ahead. Here, you only have repetition, succeeded by isolated scenes that have nothing to do with the repetition, saying it is grindy is an understatement.

Porn:
The models are great and translate well on the scenes, everything is done as it should be in terms of the rendering, honestly the only reason anyone would play this game is for this and this alone. It sucks that there are no real side characters in the game that have their own scenes. The restaurant staff or a customer, someone on the beach, someone in the office would have made a lot of sense. This is least of the problems with the game though, but just felt like something that would put a lot more flavour to the otherwise monotonous game that it turns into after all the repetition.

Overview:
Decent renders, hollow story with some of the most useless gameplay mechanics I have ever seen forcefully put in to a game to make it a "game" when the entire content screams visual novel. It's bad and a weird kind of bad, which is why I even bothered writing a review.

If the same content is remade, removing the useless gameplay mechanics and instead of repetitive scenes, just condensed into a branching storyline, it could actually turn out to be one of the best on the site.

The renders are amazing. The models are sexy and unique, especially Karen. The story is good too. The game has great potential, hence five stars. Playing through it is very easy, especially with the cheat system available, if you don't want to miss anything, cheat little by little.
Love the sharing and pregnancy fetishes, hope more are added soon. As of now, eagerly waiting for the next update. The game sure has the potential to turn into a gem. Hope more animations and sound is added soon.

This game is great for those who seek the lewd content in the family, i don't feel this game is actually grindy and with cheat you can get all the scenes easily. Also there are several paths to choose(romance, share, Ntr) make this game interesting. Char design for the Mom and Sis is great. If you're into the incest theme game this is a game you should give a shot.

There are only 2 Girls, but this does not mean it's a bad game- The opposite is true. You build up the relationship with the one you like and you have an opponent. This is what a real NTR Game should look like. It must swing in different directions not only this: Black <removed> stealing your wife/girlfriend kind of games we got in this forum to many of them and some of them are onesided, without surprises or revenge.

let me start by saying, giving the game a bad score because there's ntr in it is one of the most stupid things you can ever do, if you go in a game knowing full well it has content you don't enjoy, then just don't play it.

with that out of the way the game is legitimately bad, I've used cheats from the get go and I almost got carpal tunnel by the time I was done with this, calling it grindy would be an understatement I cannot imagine how bad this would be playing it for real.
repeating the exact same scene 40 times in a row is not fun, specially if you have to do 4 other scenes to get to anywhere in this game.

the game has little to no redeeming qualities and what little good things it does is overshadowed by the grind, terrible navigation system and general lack of direction

Terrible GUI
Grindy as fuck
No walkthrough/Help section in the game
Plot is ridiculous
WAY too much NTR
Unbalanced content updates
No heads up where game version ends
Most characters look ugly, the only one who doesn't is Nicole but she still looks like a barbie doll

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE QUIRKY

Totallyoklad is creating a game that, at first, may seem to be another cookie-cutter project pursuing a standard theme. The MC has been away for a long time and, upon returning home, feelings between him and the women in the household develop into something more than average relationships of this type usually do. Notability or forgettability of a game rests on many factors; the question is where those factors will take The Guy in Charge. This information is current as of version 0.6.

THE GOOD

THE BAD

THE QUIRKY

Whether you decide that you, as the MC, or your weaselly brother should be The Guy in Charge, the game provides decent renders, a basic but reasonable plot, and believable characters. With no music as of yet and dialogue of an average to above-average quality, however, there isn't yet anything to really draw a player to the characters. Without that connection, while the ladies are able to induce arousal, they sadly probably become somewhat forgotten in the ranks of love interests across adult games. Hopefully coming updates will not only see the ladies with more flesh out, but will also flesh out the characters to make them more memorable.

Really straightforward and satisfying game. Gameplay loop is easy to master and not overly complicated. Not an overwhelming amount of choices, which makes it easier to track progress/branching. Renders are good but not great and animations leave something to be desired. The Milf is super sexy though.

I love the character designs and where the story is going. You don't have to grind too hard because you have an easy choice to cheat if you want to get the story progressing. And NTR is a choice also, for people who like that.

Do you like to grind?, this question defines if you should even bother to try the game or not. In this game we get to a level never seen before, you may say "I have played many grindy games, it can't be that bad", well, this game is unique in the sense that it is a pure grind even for people that want NTR scenes, I mean it, you have to grind dialogues to decrease your relationship so that the rival in the game can get action with the girls. May god save us, people would actually grind for that?.

With this I'm not criticizing the NTR fetish, but rather that we are talking about actively grinding to get another character to have sex with the girl while this shouldn't be an objective in a game. Overall seeing how the game works it would make more sense to be visual novel style and just based on options, because this gameplay has to be the worst I have found.

Here is how the game works mechanically:
-We have two stats for the girls, relationship and lust, overall relationship is affected by us talking with the girls and picking the right choice each time (which, by the way, the game tells you the effect of each option), incredibly repetitive.

-The game lacks any stat that refers to our rival in the game, rather, the relationship stat is related to him too, basically by taking wrong choices each time we talk with the girl their attitude towards the rival becomes better.

Now comes logicman!, basically this mechanic what is saying is:
*Only one of them can be loved or have a good relationship with the girl (so this is a game with NTR... really)
*The girls dislike one of the characters based on it, while loving the other one (because you can't be friendly with both, not talking about sharing which seems to have an additional stat about it, basically the rival will share with us if we have a good relationship and we can share too).

So as you can see the whole mechanics related to the girls are big flaws, in fact it makes you kind of wonder if it wouldn't have been better to copy other games and just make routes.

Overall the developer could have tried to make a more dynamic game, you know, with the rival interacting with the girls and for those that don't wanna have NTR or to compete with that character just lock the stats to 0.

But the problem is... everything is repetitive and without a soul, there isn't a storyline or anything to follow, we just grind, grind, grind and then finally we can touch her ass. This isn't an interesting game to play, in fact it should be boring to both, NTR fans and non-NTR fans alike. It's because the whole concept is badly done.

I may sound a bit heavy on this review, but this is a clear example of a game that lacks a game design document or thinking clearly about the mechanics and it's implications, even more seeing how everything works feels like there is no sense of direction in the story and the girls.

Overall a clear 1.5/5, not being 1 because I don't dislike the renders.

The game is not 5 stars but definetely not 2.5 stars.
The design of the mother is AMAZING. The sister is nice.
Also the ntr looks fucking good so I will give you that.

Its worth playing for the graphics and decent story, but dont expect much because it doesnt have a lot of content and a ton of repetitive content, also hard to trigger some scenes and no walkthrough.

is not the best, but you can enjoy it if there is no more good games on hand, and in this games, you have two path to play so you can have more options and you can feel a little that your decission make some impact but without forgetting there are only ntr and normal path with each girl (sorry for my english ), you can play better if you use console commands and interactive director( only ned to use UnRen)

this is a 3.5/5 for me but as i dont think it deserves a 1.5 star rating ill round up instead of down

Too much grind but thats pretty much standard for these types of sandbox games. a bit vague on what you should be doing but its not like you need a walkthrough as i havent encountered any "on a thursday evening you have to go to this room where noone is normally at that time" to get to the next step. but its definately not as straight forward as i would like and as i said too much grind, though to be fair the most annoying grind can be avoided with the included cheatmenu ingame