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

first of you get an option to skip at the beginning always take the chance to skip the beginning part is a real pain I promise you. now I'm open minded I quite enjoy playing as the not good guy and I apricate this as Frances's contribution to gaming erotica but there's one big problem that means I'm deducting points. despite its good plot its beautiful 3d modeling its polish etc. you can only have sex with 3 of the students and that is counting handies now I don't think that sex is the focus of the game BUT YOU GOTA ATLEAST GIVE US THE OPTION!!!!

This game sets the standard for what a sandboxy AVN should be. The writing is also top notch even though the premise appears silly on the surface. As some other reviewer remarked, on the one hand there's an element of social commentary on the oppression nature of British boarding schools and culture in general. But it also lightly touches on younger generations not having discipline, lacking purpose, and having a general disillusionment about life and the future.

Social commentary aside, there's a vast cast of characters each with a different kink, issue or fantasy, and you get to find out about each of them individually. The girls have a wide range of personalities, body types and preferences. There's something for everyone here. Even though the headmaster is clearly enjoying the situation as any man would, the girls are also growing as characters and letting go of their past issues. Obviously that happens with a good amount of "porn logic", but it is cleary well written and thought through.

The game loop itself is also masterfully done. Whereas with most AVNs we're just hoping the dev finishes the story before abandoning the project, this is one of the few titles that actually doesn't need an ending at all. The devs could keep adding girls, changing school years, moving to different schools and repeating the main game loop. We get a hint of some of that with a few new girls joining the school towards the later chapters, but their stories hasn't progressed a lot so we're left wondering for now.

Then there's the depth of psychological analysis. Obviously it requires some suspension of disbelief given the porn aspect of it, but I think the writers--it's hard to call them just developers--do actually know a fair bit about psychology. So much so that I actually teared up in one scene where a character reveals their struggle with a disability. I don't think that has ever happened to me after playing 50-100 titles.

Finally, despite all the psychological depth and complexity, the game feels humorous and straightforward. Maybe I'm guilty of laughing harder than I should at character names like Paul Mykock and Reilly Goodhead--after all, my username isn't MaxRichard by accident, or Max Dick, as my friends call me. But I just enjoyed the whole ride here, constantly laughing and spanking hot young girls.

Surely the renders could be better, but then again this game was started in 2019 so it's using that kind of technology, and again doing so artfully. Tons of animations, bouncing boobs, a rich UI that also doesn't have any unnecessary clicks... It's just 10/10 in every regard.

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.