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

version 0.12.1

It has good graphics with acceptable animations as well as the story and most
importantly the amount of beautiful girls to punish.....I love the game.

The game does not have many sex scenes so many will not find it entertaining but has a lot of potential to continue growing.

This game is grind central. It has a lot of potential hence the rating of average, but many of the positive traits of this game is overshadowed by the excessive or unnecessary grind needed to advance in the game. The premise of the story is you're put into a position of headmaster and must change the all girl students behavior by means of spankings and other BDSM measures.

However, you aren't allowed to change any rules or apply any of your bdsm measures until you can convince your faculty to support you in the board meetings every Friday (incoming grind) . In order to do this you're given the dreaded sidequests for each faculty member. On top of that you have other things like (reputation, discipline, and lust) points.

Most of the quest instructions say "Do this" however most of the time it's completely random whether you see the correct scene or not, the instructions don't specify what time of day or anything. Most of my playthrough is spent frustratingly wandering around hoping to catch someone misbehaving, or a scene so I can earn more discipline or reputation points.

There's cheats that let you circumvent and raise the amount of money you get (very helpful) because you only are paid 500 per week every friday and most gfits are 500-1000+ dollars each. So on top of grinding for discipline points without cheats you have to grind for money as well. Additionally, you can unlock all scenes in replay and max out character bdsm "levels" with cheats but that doesn't help either as several scenes are locked unless you increase bdsm levels through the research tasks that take forever with little instruction.

All in all the storyline and graphics are decent but the grind greatly reduces the immersive quality of the game as you will find yourself bored and frustrated with trying to find different scenes,. For example you have to train a faculty teacher at night on how to better control her classroom . You literally visit this teacher's house 15 different times to train her, and you also have to watch her in the classroom as well.

However, as I mentioned earliar it's hit or miss on instructions for tasks. Sometimes it tells you what time of day to visit sometimes not in the case of the teacher it does not and is random. So i go to visit the teacher to observe her during her class and 4 times in a row it says "Nothing of note happens i'll need to come back and observe when someone is misbehaving" (repeat this scenerio everyday)

I don't mind grind but annoying things like with the teacher but associated with 70% of tasks sucks all enjoyment out of a game which is supposed to be fun. All in all this game would be much more fun as a visual novel. This game still has some enjoyable parts but all in all I ended up stopping as I got too frustrated trying to find different scenes to advance with a characters as the game doesn't tell you when or where to be to discover punishments solid 3/5.

Nice graphics - the first thing that catches your eye. Then a large amount of content pops up and a good study of each character. The main plot and a separate branch of content for each character - this is not in every game. Special thanks for the good study of the code - despite the small version number - 0.12 and beta status, during the full walkthrough I did not encounter a single glitch or bug. They would also bring localization, but it’s not harmful to dream))

You'll love this if you like doing boring in game tasks like delivering a photograph on a specific day, training someone every night etc etc. Same animation cue and the "reward" is probably another task or the imaginary points bar fills up so you can MAYBE progress to spanking the girl. Pass.

If you have a spanking fetish, this game is probably 4 or 5 stars for you.

Personally, I don't, so what is here is... competent, but bland.

Progression is linear, and has (imo) the bad design of requiring you to progress character A. before you can progress Character B.

On the plus side, corruption is nicely slow.

On the negative, it is grindy. With lots of spanking. Don't expect to get to sex scenes any time soon.

The promise of this game is just excellent.

A "grinding" type of AVN, but with the right setting, the many differences in girls due to a school type environment, and a focus on bdsm/discipline.

What is there to ask for more?

I hope the next updates go on in the right direction because this start is wonderful.

Version Played: v0.11.1
TIme played: Upwards of 8 hours. Most content seen aside from a scant few events.

The more I play this game, the more I love it. While it actually doesn't really tick a lot of my fetish boxes, the writing, setting and extremely hot cast of girls (what can I say, I love Honey Select) makes me enjoy each and every play session.

For someone far removed from his student days, games like this with an older MC have a special appeal since it's easier to self insert or at least relate to the situation. Said situation isn't unique (I can think of at least two other games with the same or a similar premise), but it's incredibly well-realized here.

Positives:
+ Fun setting
+ Smart writing with lots of laughs (I was literally laughing out loud during the + Incredibly hot characters
+ A ton of content

Negatives:
- If you're not into a large power balance disparity or spanking and shit like that, this might be a hard sell
- Tends more towards the humorous rather than serious, so don't expect any real heartfelt love moments
- YMMV on Honey Select models

As you can see, those latter two negatives are barely that, but to talk to the first negative point, I'm actually decidedly NOT into either, but the game manages to do it without it being off putting. The game also does a great job of keeping its tongue firmly in its cheek in terms of just how fucked up the situation actually is. I like when games have a self-awareness to them without breaking the fourth wall or devolving into seeing how many memes they can cram into each line.

Note devs: Bravo! An absolute delight of a game. Please just keep up what you're doing and those updates coming. This game joins the list of those I've supported via itch.io.

This game is amazing for one reason: the sheer amount of content. There was so much to do, so many unique characters, so many individual stories to explore. It was easy to forget I was playing an early version (0.10.1) of the game.
Most of the gameplay events are accompanied by images or animations and that means there are lot of them. The animations are not even reserved for sex scenes. For example there are multiple animations for sports lessons. The effort put into this game is clearly visible.
Of course the game is not perfect. The main storyline is easily forgotten between the various events and character stories. The individual images and animations are good, not amazing. However that does not matter when the game design works as well as in this game.
I did not even like the spanking in this game, one of its main aspects. Yet I could not drop this game after starting to play it. It is that good.

Very nice game with plenty of content for >24 hours of decent game play.
Fetishes presented in the game are totally up my alley and there are a huge cast of characters which makes it great to explore and expand in the future.
Can't wait for future updates!

This is the game that started it all for me. The beginning of my journey into adult games, and boy, did it set the bar high!

The Headmaster is set in a fictional country where the government has approved the testing of 'unconventional' methods of discipline on students to help improve graduation rates.

While the game and its premise definitely require the suspension of disbelief, which adult game does not?

Not quite a virtual novel, but more so an interactive sandbox with the usual limited actions per day mechanic. You are able to gradually corrupt girls, adapting and fine-tuning your approach as you go.

If you're wanting to play an egotistical megalomanical headmaster that seeks to corrupt, humiliate, degrade, and perform all manner of unspeakable acts on his colleagues and students, this game is perfect for you!

Thoroughly enjoyed it, and find myself checking the discord regularly to see whether there has been an update.

Animations aren't really out of the world, but you don't really notice it because the game does a great job of drawing you into the story, and making you focus on corrupting each girl as much as you can.

There are some continuity issues every now and then where the girls don't act like they would in real life when you next meet them after just having mistreated them a couple of days ago, but that's par for the course in sandbox games.

Definitely a big recommend!

v0.11.1

The Headmaster is a sandbox VN about a researcher on improving behavior at schools. It's set in a kind of near future alternate universe where youth delinquency has skyrocketed, and your experimental methods involving corporal punishment and sexual assault are needed to teach the next generation of young women the discipline that they lack. The writing is decent but like a lot of sandbox VNs the grind becomes a chore after a while. The renders are definitely Honey Select models and the animations are a bit choppy. Sound and music is used to decent effect. The writing was pretty good, I just couldn't handle that grind.

This is the best game ever, i love the story, the mystery and the sex scene is repeatable, it's really feels like living inside their universe. It's have a great potential too with many character and each character has their own story, it's not easy to feel bored. Since it's setting is in school it's easy to add new characters thus we never run out of things to do.

I like this game a lot. An interesting story and many beautiful girls. Great renders. The quests are almost all complete so I hope The developer will introduce more. Especially involving my favorites AMY, and PRITI.

Game version: [v.0.11.1]

It's a credit to the game's writing that it managed to hold my interest even though mediocre Honey Select renders and light BDSM aren't exactly things that blow me away. The pace at which the game doles out sexual content is also pretty glacial, especially in the beginning, but the game throws a huge cast of girls at you and manages to make almost all of them likable or interesting in some way, so you kind of just get into a groove of going around and doing your thing, always wanting to see the next interaction. The robust quest system with clear directions on what you need to do makes the sandbox elements a lot more painless than in worse games.

The writing rides a fine line of trying to be cute or comedic a lot but it ends up working more often than it doesn't. Many character moments and interactions in this game are just fun and adorable, like the DnD sessions, the fake reality TV show, the water pistol fight, etc. Other things like the edgelord atheism references or the "hilarious" character names like Mykock, Kuntz, and Swallows (get it? it's a porn game) were a little grating.

In general, the game kind of has a problem with tone in that it's a little too wholesome for its own good. It's set in a dystopia and you're for all intents and purposes brainwashing young girls against their will in a penal colony dressed up as a high school, but the game doesn't seem to want to dwell on that too much besides some foreshadowing that the people funding the school probably aren't all that kosher.

The worst is that the MC waffles between thinking what he's doing is altruistic or at worst a necessary evil and then he has random moments where he's like "yeah, I'm just an asshole and like to abuse women." You only get a few good/evil choices but they don't really seem to do much, except one of them literally leads to a gameover, which was pretty lame. Also, if you are going to cuck your game for Patreon, at least make an uncensor patch. All this talk about safewords and consent in a dystopian, misogynistic maledom game is pretty fucking cringe and makes my eyes roll up into the back of my head.

All in all the game is too tame/vanilla for my sick tastes and I often wished you had more chances to contextualize the MC's actions and roleplay a bit more, but despite that I still couldn't put the game down and had a pretty good time. I just wish you could actually make some choices and the devs didn't try to turn their game about non-consent into some roleplay shit that makes no sense because Patreon bucks. I was close to rating this 4 stars, even though the porn content was kind of "meh," but then the game pissed in my cornflakes with the lectures about safewords.

Reviewing version v0.11.1

This game is great. I find the graphics a bit dated for 2021, but the character models really grow on you with time.

Speaking of characters, there are so many wonderful characters to punish.

This isn't a comedy game, but the jokes that are in the game really landed well for me. It had me laughing out loud multiple times.

The majority of the interactions in the game are animated and with sound. The music is easy on the ears.

I can't wait to see future versions. #RachelBestGirl

Honestly one of the best porn games I’ve played great characters, great scenes, great environment, easy UI, the fathers really grow on you as you do more an more quests and have more and more encounters

So I'm not the kind of guy who will say I'm here for the plot, but it doesn't look very interesting. Quality wise, not very good either, lots and lots of grind and uneventful stuff for rewards that extremely underwhelming on a vanilla HS that doesn't really look good as well. Despite the large amount of content, it's just flat out boring.

Not worth the grind.

If you want to spend the whole afternoon grinding in this game whilst not even getting an erection, then this is the game for you. Also the game in it's current state has a lack of vaginal penetration scenes anyways, I'm into dominance, but even that is not enough to save this game for me.

This is my second ever review as I am a typically selfish lurker. The Headmaster is in my top 5 games that I've played at F95 and I like to think of myself as the discerning sort, so in my opinion, this game is the equal of games like Good Girl Gone Bad, Summertime Saga, Harem Hotel etc, if not better in many respects.

There are some reviews which feel that the graphics are not upto snuff, and that's subjective, if you can't get over the art style that's perfectly fair. However, I thought the aesthetics were more than adequate, and that the facial expressions in combination with the sound effects and in particular the camera direction all make for an unusually polished game.

Polished. Clever. Erudite. Funny. Kinky. Engaging. Patient. And very rewarding. My congratulations and thanks to the devs, this is a landmark game.

I did not like it at all. It was boring on a whole other level. The graphics look really cheesy to be honest. Well but just because I didn't enjoy it it dosen't mean that it's bad. I mean look at the other reviews. The only thing that I kind of liked is the system hat the game is using.