Ren'Py - The Headmaster [v0.16.3] [Altos and Herdone]

Good game about being a Headmaster.

Pros -
1. Good variety of characters with different characteristics.
2. Each has unique outcome and final scene.
3. Good rendering and animation.
4. Good character models.

Cons.
1. The game looks primarily focused around spanking.
2. The classes and school activities are not fleshed out.
3. The punishment feature is just rince repeat in most cases.
4. No alternate ending or branching storylines.

This is the best novel I've seen. With a realistic setting and good gameplay.
A good social commentary on the dubious dealings of the rich and the English love of oppressing students in boarding schools.

- Interesting story, very funny at times, it has some nice remarkable moments, many plots are engaging, however, there were also quests that, in my opinion, were there just to unncecesarily overextend the story.

- The writing is good most of the time, but there are also a few times where it gets too dense.

- The MC is good actually, however, I have to say I didn't get him quite well, because I thought at the beginning He did everything for the sake of the girls (at least in his mind that was always a priority), however, there are times when he gives the impression that he does things just to his self-gratification (or have inner thoughts where he implies that's doing it for self-gratification). Maybe this is a writing issue??

- Girls are great, despite being many you get to know them and their personalities, so they are well written (except for Rachel which quest felt kinda dull)

- Renders are Ok.

- Animations are great, especially the non-lewd ones, the developers know where to put them so they make the story more enjoyable and memorable. This is the right way to use them.

- Others: I have to confess that by the day 115 I got a bit fed up with some dull quests and dense wirting and the thought of quitting the game crossed my mind, but I decided not to, luckily it got better towards the end (of this version 0.16.3 )

Overall the game is quite enjoyable. I'd give it an 8/10. It's worth checking out, especially if you love spankings xD.

As of 0.16.3

If you haven't played this game - it's great. Variety of characters, each of them explores some specific kink within general theme of the game. Start might be a bit slow, but as the game progresses - interesting events keep happening.

And once you completed current content... forget about ever coming back. Updates are extremely rare and usually they focus on a single girl, so all others feel stuck forever.

I enjoyed this game greatly with the content that is there. But i don't get same highs from updates, so i won't be coming back.

This game is very well done, the scenarios are believable and humorous. Each of the characters feel unique and it's easy to empathize with them. Also props for not making the mc either too perfect or unlikeable, it can be hard to manage. You don't need cheats or a walkthrough really, the hints in-game work well. 9.5/10

I played this game long ago but I never reviewed it till today so here I am. I played it a couple of hours at least before I decided it was far too slow for me and there were too many characters. So many that I found it difficult to get invested on any. Felt like the personalities of some were pretty much the same with just different models. However, like I said, I played this game long ago. I'll give it another go this weekend and then maybe I'll revisit this review. Still, it's a trainer game and you can never have enough of those.

This game is so great... slowly opens up with more and more options for corruptions. Gaining back power gradually. A variety of girls with different personalities... This is very interesting and fulfills my dream as a headmaster of a girl's school

I love this game, it has everything I like. A bit too few toys, but the ones that are available are also okay. The story is wonderful, with each update there is more and more of it. I will definitely buy this game when it comes out on Steam in the full version!!

Massive 5 stars. This game is one of a kind and stands out on so many levels.

There's the setting - a whole, slightly apocalyptic, backstory that has enough roots in reality to resonate. The dark forces in the background are only hinted at but are omnipresent and add a whole layer of suspense to the game.

There are the individual stories of students, staff and others, worked out in great detail and meticulously summarized in the notebook. These give you a great handle on the game and the amazing thing is that there is no random behaviour, but each persona behaves naturally and consistent to their character. Also, there are few if any of the standard porn-game tropes in sight. These characters resemble real people with believable back stories, the likes of which you could conceivably come across in your daily life.

There's also the delightful tongue-in-cheek humour in the game, which frequently has me in stitches. Dialogues that turn bizarre because of the weird situations they're being played out in, the creative acronyms and the hilarious names given to some of the antagonists ("Harry Kuntz" anyone?) - it's pure comedy.

But the best thing of course is the Headmaster himself. A depraved man by anyone's standards... and yet he has a kind streak and is in his own way a moral person. He sees himself as an exceptionally enlightened educator and has set himself on a mission to save Western Civilization from oblivion no less. This leads to an amazing stream of inner thoughts and lectures to staff and students in which he actually manages to completely justify all his actions. In the course of the game he either persuades or overawes everyone he comes into contact with to follow his line of thinking. Even as a player behind your screen you may find yourself nodding along with his reasoning, only to realize later you've arrived at some ridiculous outcome.

This game is so well conceived and written it can -and hopefully will - continue for years to come without getting stale or boring. Thank you Devs and keep the updates coming please.

Probably my favorite RenPy game to be honest. Good corruption stuff! I love the long burn to get all the way with the girls. I just wish production of this was faster as I want to see how far things can go with the little house cleaner girl.

This is hands down the most hilarious porn game I have played. I constantly crack up at the headmaster noble sense of self in the pursuit of disciplining schoolgirls. If you play it long enough you start to develop a Stockholm syndrome for the headmaster. I have a mild spanking kink, so this checks that box but it has genuinely great writing. One of the better games on this site.

This review is for [v0.15.3.1 Public]

I have played an older version of this game about a year and a half ago and already thought it was a good game/great setting for this genre but only punishing the girls was not enough...

Now with this version and the new content this game is so much more than I expected. Perfect speed to advance the story and going from just punishing the girls to really bending them to your will.
The storylines are great and really show the different personalities/kinks of the girls/teachers. the grade/ discipline /money / influence system is easy to understand plus the changes to school rules keeps the game at a good pace. And this game has a great humor and is fun to play.

Oh, and I have to point out the fundraiser event is so good and funny ( the "I love molerats shirts" alone); this storyline might be the best one I have seen in any game like this.

Really cant wait to see where the devolper takes us in the next updates

This is my favorite game on this site. The storytelling is amazing, the game is genuinely funny, and the interactive scenes are very well done. I love how the punishment scenes have multiple camera angles.

Thank you for making this game.

The premise is nice and the gameplay loop is done well enough. There is a lot of content though the updates to specific paths are painfully slow as there are so many of them (you can run right into a "this comes in a later update" scene in your 2nd day of playing... and that has not been updated for 5 RL years!)

Sadly the main issue that holds this game back from becoming amazing instead of just average is the lack of descriptive text during the punishment/sex scenes. The animations are good. But they are not remotely good enough to carry a scene. It is aggravating because it would just take one or two text sentences during the animations to not make them feel so disjointed and robotic.

Don't just add a slightly animated a sex screen, then write "Aaah!" and jump to the end. That's not engaging at all and feels super disappointing as the end of a quest.
At least give it a small text describing what is going on or have the MC think about what he experiences.
There is good examples in this in the new group punishing scenes so I hope the author will add something retroactively to the "old" scenes as well.
Otherwise the game will never really live up to the far too generous reviews.

This game rocks!!! I love how you can do something each (or so it seems) and every time you walk around, go to your office, play ball ....well you get the point. I used to believe SummSaga was the pinnacle. But now we have twin peaks!! Seriously I am donating to the cause! Keep it up!!!

I love this game, the sex sounds do really suck, reminiscent of the old janky original 3dsexvilla sounds...like one file for all sex sounds probably titled "sexymoan.wav" ripped from a VHS tape in the late 80s and passed around America Online chatrooms for years before someone found it and put it in 3dsexvilla because they were too cheap to hire a single voice actor to moan a few times. The file is so damaged now no one can tell who the original girl who moaned was. Its sounds like snow on an old televiosion with rabbit ears looks. The dev may have even ripped the sound file directly from the original 1995 version of the game. But the music is good and everything else makes up for the terrible sounds. I love how each character has music based on their personalities. alot of storylines to follow and girls to persue. Excellent story and characters. 9/10 game.

I know the point is to be ridiculously hilarious but it's so over the top you can't help but roll your eyes half the time MC is spewing his perverted BS. It's also crazily uncomfortable knowing exactly what's going on from the start and how MC is cool with it regardless of your decisions.

Why can't we play as an MC that tries to fuck with the perverted owners and turn things around and convince teachers it's bad and get rid of the nasty/bad teachers? Ah yes, because we're forced to be a pervert ourselves!

It gets really boring quickly too, plot and lewd-wise. The first couple of spankings are cool and all but when you're doing it nearly every day and start using dildos and shit it's somehow still boring.

A hard pass on this game, even if you're into BDSM stuff because of the boring and ridiculous premise that tries to be convincing for some reason but even then falls flat. No idea how this game has such glowing ratings.

If correcting the behavior of school girls through spanking is your jam, download this game immediately. I didn't even realize I had this tendency until I played this game. Everything from writing to renders to animation is really top notch. It pains me to say that after awhile (probably v9-10) I realized that punishing, excuse me, correcting the girls was starting to lose the fapping effect, so I stopped playing (the main story was not enough to keep my attention). Usually, I would deduct a point or two for deleting a game before the current version's end, but this game is too good to not receive 5/5 stars.

Story is pretty good but late game it falls apart when MCs goal is to turn every girl into a lesbian thats where i lost interrest in the game, MC say he wants to encourge the bond between all the girls so they will be intimate with one another, so in other words game turns into a almost pure lesbian game and it also kills any reality feeling the game had since its not realistic that every stright girl would go lesbian, personaly i find it idiotic, making hole class hold hands next time hug so you can see where this is going.

Also it does get quite a bit boring in the long run since its rinse and repeat, wax off wax on...its just sooo much of the same, its fun enough the first 5 times you spank a girl but after 500 times well yeah....
And being forced to have Sally a BI teacher with you every single time you punish someone is annoying as fuck, its all to push more lesbian shit.

Worst thing ive ever seen in a porn game is when MC uses a dildo to break someones hymen, i mean really....cant even give that pleasure to virgin/deflower fans either, i stopped playing after that part, and the even more idiotic thing is the reasoning, MCs dick is to big????? guess dev dont know how a pussy works, but heres a hint how big a dildo would be needed to be ready for a baby to pop out.....idiotic...
As for sex scenes forget it, there is barely any at all even after so many years of making the game.

It becomes very clear that MC never cared one bit about the students and its all about him brainwashing them into being sexdolls and lesbians and following anything hes bosses tells him since he has no backbone him self and only thinks about fucking eveyone which makes for a boring story where you just play a perv with the only goal of fucking all the moves its just meh.

Next thing is its very close to being kinetic and you really dont have any kind of choices when it comes to sex or anything else, following questlines will lead to MC fucking each and everyone, students, teachers, big and small tittet girls eveything, you never have an option to say no and thats where it gets mostly annoying to me personaly since i hate forced LIs, i managed to turn down one woman trixie if it will bite me in the ass later i dont know since questline said go talk to trixie to get a whore for a teacher, but there is no trixie to talk with in my play through which might become an issue.

Story fails when you dont follow the kinetic/expected route, Trixie shows up in the school hall talking to students, thing is shes not a teacher i never hired her and shes not on staff list...funny enough its the one time you have a choice that makes a diffrent and it fucks it up, so your either have to hire the bitch or give pictures to the perv teacher, i dont want either.

It also feels like its all about the lesbians or BI girls, the ones you constantly train or have any kind of content with is atleast BI, to me its just a little annoying, LIs like Amy, Sally, Debbie, is 3 main LIs all BI/Leabians, to make it even more idiotic MC gets 10+ girls kiss and pleasure one girl, and later hes goal is to make them all lesbians its idiotic so if you arent into lesbian stuff stay clear of this game, its more about girl/girls then anything else, supprised we dont have a female MC in this as well.

As for the animations they really are just about average, you kinda expect some kind of reaction from a girl being edged for an hour, but its very plain and motionless and no squrting so quite a bit meh..
Virgin scenes are the worst you will ever see, MC destroys hymen with dildos most worthless and pointless deflower scenes you will ever see.

Pros:
Alot of LIs, alot of diffrent builds from very small to huge tits, lollis and milfs.
Story is pretty good and has some fun aspects, love my pet cat in this one, but late game it fails as explained in Cons.

Cons:
You have to be into everything to play, small and big tits, lolli and milfs.
No choices in who to fuck, simply cant turn anyone down.
MC is truely a perv he just refuse to belive it him self a true sociopath.
Very repetitive gameplay.
Dildo Deflower scenes, extreeemly shitty choice for virgins/deflower fans.
Quests like to hire Trixie never got added after you turn her down the first time, dev talked about it in 2019...
Some things says it will be update in next relase but it just dosent.
Main quest "testing students" still not updated either.
Need lesbian fetish to play since MC is trying to make them ALL lesbians.
Game is very old and nowhere near done still, and will proberly take years still to get complete.

Holy cow this game cracks me up so much. The absolute bs this headmaster pontificates on is hilarious. The fact he believes himself to be righteous makes him a perfect villain. I'm also impressed with the accuracy of the portrayal of Patricia's religious beliefs. I was raised Christian and she jives with my experiences growing up. I appreciate how instead of going all "religion bad" like many writers with differing beliefs do, here the MC makes it clear he doesn't object to her beliefs, but every girl has to pass those tests

The writing is very enjoyable. I rarely read everything when playing a porn game. Some games it's such drivel that I skip to the hot stuff, but not here. I not only read every line of dialog but also the journal and quest entries, and there's a lot. Well done. I know it's a lot of work

And the scenes are great, especially the big, climactic ones. OMG the demonstration scene with the two teachers from the other school. The way MC manipulates the girls to be punished is so satisfying. And then the moment when MC snaps his fingers and the music picks up had me cheering. Then later, during the first class spanking when MC starts giving his inspirational speech. I died, the music choice there was so sappy but just right. And the sex scenes aren't bad either