VN - Ren'Py - The Higher Society [Part 2 - v0.1] [xxerikxx]

This review is for Part 1 of The Higher Society

The idea of using a secret society as the core concept for an adult game is a strong one and could have led to a genuinely interesting story. Unfortunately, that potential is completely wasted here. The plot is bland and uninteresting, and the cast is filled with bratty, annoying teenage characters pretending to be adults — especially the daughter. She is easily one of the worst characters I’ve seen in an AVN: obnoxious, painfully naïve, with zero self-awareness or common sense. To be fair, she plays the role of a clueless teenage girl perfectly, but that’s exactly the problem. If the characters had been written as more mature, actual adults, the secret society premise could have carried real weight. Instead, whenever actual adults appear, they’re mostly relegated to background noise and never contribute meaningfully to the story.

The game throws a large number of choices at you, but most of them are poorly designed. You’re often presented with basic “yes” or “no” decisions without enough context, making it unclear what outcome you’re even choosing. That alone is frustrating, but it gets worse when you realize that most choices don’t matter anyway. While a few decisions can trigger unexpected endings, the majority simply lock or unlock sex scenes, with very little narrative consequence attached to them.

Visually, the game feels dated. The renders are still serviceable, but repetition is constant, with the same images reused across multiple dialogue lines. Scene transitions feel amateurish, as if there’s no real continuity between days, hours, or even conversations. Animations are extremely basic — technically present, but they add nothing meaningful to the scenes. In some cases, lighting changes mid-animation, creating visual inconsistencies that further damage immersion.

Overall, this is a game with a strong concept that fails almost entirely in execution, held back by weak writing, irritating characters, shallow choices, and dated presentation.

Based on everything:

• Story & Characters → Wasted premise with annoying, immature characters and a bland, forgettable plot. 5.0/10
• Player Choices → Plenty of choices, but most lack context or meaningful impact beyond scene locking. 6.0/10
• Visuals & Animations → Dated renders, heavy repetition, weak animations, and poor continuity. 4.2/10

The idea that there will be one man in this world who knows how to treat every woman — whether rough or slow and gentle, always making them feel good. And that there is an evil counterpart who is the complete opposite of all this — and who, of course, must be stopped. I hope we’ll live to see the ending! Please keep going.

In the beginning there was chaos ... and I'm afraid a lot of chaos (at least for player) lasted to this point.

Story in this game generally is very good and entertaining. THS is introduced slowly without overwhelming impact on relationships, there are some thrills, intriguing moments and plot twists. Also, pacing with LIs is more than ok. Quite slow progress with Angelina, but I expected it and wanted it (this relationship should be well built and not be pushed and here it was achieved), but meantime there's still entertaining content with other LIs. There are however too many decisions out of nowhere which give different outcomes and player don't have any clue about it. For example I was shocked while I started part 2 that Mila can be pregnant - I mean I had sex with her with every possible occassion and also was cumming inside her, but it appeared that I need to skip one sex scene to make her pregnant. There was literally no info or suggestion about outcome. Too many outcomes also leads to writing problems. There were few moments when we hear about different situation than we picked. For example I picked boat visit with Jenny and Lucy, but after picking Mila from stables, I was informed about blowjob she gave me and which would happen, if I picked different choice. There are also few typos and mistakes with your and you're, but it's very rare and don't affect my review.

LIs are pretty. Not perfect, but pretty. Second part improved them I think, but I opened just for a while to see graphics. Sometimes attitude of young LIs and how they handled or reacted in situations felt too mature for their age, but I generally liked each of them. Unfortunately, can't say it about animations. At part one, some sex scenes looked more like they have some kind of attack instead having sex (especially early, but it happened later too, for example Angelina showing Mila how to use sex toy). Hope second part improved it, but I'm not going to check it in close future.

Am I disappointed I started this game? No. This is a nice story and for most of the time I was considering 4*. Unfortunately, it have to be second game that I'm dropping (at least temporarily) in the middle of story. Without walkthrough it's just a waste of time and in one post dev admitted that he don't even know where these paths will go (so why creating so many!). No point to start over 100 times to check all the paths and possibilities, when sometimes there even are no clues about outcome and more paths will create even bigger chaos.

Very good characters and an interesting story. Bit confusing still on the incest end as to whether the MC is truly the biological father or not. Preganancy tag really needs to be added especially since the option for one of the LI's to be pregnant occurs in the setup to part 2. If so the Dev needs to seriously consider making it an option for other LI's as well to be, After all the option to cum in is always there. Very good story. Would love to see more involvement with the person's assigned to the MC as well. Would have liked to see sex with Fallon as an option but now she is going away. Yvette is still there but apparently he doesn't get to to sample that either. Could be interesting. How about other actors or actresses to expand his agent client portfolio? That would be nice as well. Either way MC needs to expand his popularity and power base so he is less vulnerable. Doubt he will take over THS in the future but you never know what the Dev has planned.

Hope this has a nice future as part 1 was very enjoyable and part 2 is starting off in an interesting way. Looking forward to future updates and happily recommend this one. Am open to a future edit to make it a 5 with further improvements by the Dev, It would not be hard to achieve in my book.

tldr: soulless. i do not recommend this.

OVERALL QUALITY:
there is no art here. very little care has been given to arranging scenes: the cinematography is uninspired, the poses feel fake and the limited facial expressions firmly reside inside uncanny valley.
the dialogue is stale, but servicable. i didn't have to cringe because of bad spelling or grammar like in so many other games.
i didn't check the sound a lot. i think there is only music which is completely average.

STORY:
the main story is not great, but at least i was interested and engaged in it up to the end sudden stop. i appreciate that care has been taken to have the plot grounded in realism and not porn logic, even though the main story and many plot points feel very contrived.

a big problem is the length of the game. it drags on sooo much. the plot takes place over ~50 days and every day includes a breakfast scene. why? often exposition is told to you once, then again when the original character tells another character. everything has to be discussed - often multiple times or with different characters. we have to accompany the characters to, like, every second shower and listen to all of their conversations, even phonecalls, and even when they don't even tangentially touch on plot points. it's bewildering.

FEEL:
overall i never felt immersed in the scene but more like i'm looking at a crude doll house from above. the readers time isn't used effectively. in the end i was able to empathise with the characters a bit even though they all feel so stale, but only because the game forces you to spend so much time with them. the same result could have been achieved with fewer, but more impactful scenes.
the game kinda handicaps itself by ignoring many of the tools to craft a narrative. visually you don't get a lot of information since camera angles, lighting, color composition etc is just not used to help the scene. the limited facial expressions are not detailed or varied enough either to gauge emotions or thoughts. the dialogue isn't used well to distinguish between characters or emotions. there is no dramatic music, there is no narration to give you details apart from the visuals on the screen. instead of narration we get thought bubbles for every character. those at least contain some additional details, but even this isn't used well to convey information.

SEX SCENES:
the sex scenes are even worse than the rest of the scenes. they have the same problem of feeling stale and artificial. they are also very short. only a few images per scene and very little dialogue.
the animations are atrocious! the game would honestly improve in quality if the animations weren't there. they are so bad it's not even funny.
the sex moans are also the worst i've ever read. i mean... "AAAAOOOOHHH"... really? what are we doing here? howling at the moon?

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM FOR THE DEV:
focus more on quality! one good scene is worth more than 20 bad ones. think about why a scene is needed and if it can be cut or combined with other plot points. try to focus on critical developments instead of everyday mundanity. use more tools to convey scenes (easy fix could be narration to communicate details that aren't visual).

OVERALL, I WOULD RATE THIS GAME AS POOR (2 OUT OF 5) IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE BAD AVERAGE QUALITY OF PORN GAMES. COMPARED TO OTHERS, THIS GAME IS FIRMLY AVERAGE (3 OUT OF 5).

Been playing this a few times now and constantly trying to squeeze things out of the game that just aren't in the game... Or rather, I'm trying to do what's in the tags, NTR... but it's not here... Everyone is fucked by the MC... And the game is supposedly already completed... [Part 1 - v0.25]... or rather the game just abandoned, but called completed...

I started the game unprepared and I have to say it took a while until it became more interesting. The story and the writing are quite good. The choices in the game are quite good and aren't immediately disruptive. Unfortunately, I have to say that the game gets worse from the Xavi story onwards. Before the story I would have given the game 5 stars but the guy is annoying. I hope that the story will be flipped and THS will become more interesting again. At the moment I can only give it 4 out of 5 stars, hope it won't be abandoned and at least got a good ending.

Really good game with very cute and sexy girls and plenty of action. The game follows a story and themes related to secret sex societies, temptation and depravity. All the scenes are well done, and there is enough branching paths int he game that you will not see all the scenes in on playthrough.

the character models are hot as hell, the story idea is great, and in theory the game should be good kinky fun. But somehow its kind of boring. Little effort is made to frame scenes or build tension. Dialogue isn't that interesting, emotions are not engaged. You are always looking at the characters from the same distance, like a puppet show. Or straight on looking at faces as they talk.
It's like a movie with beautiful actors, a great plot, but bad editing and zero effort at cinematography.

What a fun ride!

If you want a game with a million branches where your choices matter this is for you. Renders are pretty good and while the story requires some suspension of believe it's no more so than any other porn game. The sex scenes are hot, the variety of the girls is great

The game has average graphics and really nice characters. The MC could look a bit more appealing because he looks pretty bad. The story is good but a lot of choices does not effected the outcome of the game. The amount of the content is quite nice. I am missing some clothes variety and changes.

The story is dull and rather nonsensical.
Relationships between characters are weird.
Overall it feels more like a filler than a coherent (planned out) writing.

The animations are so bad that they would better not exist. In many scenes there are missing frames. Spanking scene - has an image of preparing to hit, but not the hit itself, which turns it empty.

One of the most annoying thing in this game, however, is the amount of choices you are prompted to make. I think there are over several hundreds choices in this game, most of which do nothing. It is like a weird AD popup that comes out every other second and makes you stop and wastes time.

This also fades out the important choices in the game if those even exist.

In a single short dialogue you can have 5-10 choices easily, why?

- the bad:
if you expect some descent animations, forget about it. the animations are just 2 renders going in loop, this wouldn't be so problematic if it was well done. sadly here it's not, one exemple you will see the head and torso, the arms going back and forth in poses were just the hip is supposed to move.
also the poses are weird, not realistic.
don't want to be rude but the animations and the poses are not even reaching the level zero.
the second flaw, well it depends on personal tastes for sure but for me, the mc is not good-looking, he's ugly, the face, the body.
therefore it is impossible to believe that all those teens and women just fall in love with him and at first sight like he's not a cucumber with arms and legs but some kind of brad pitt.
the organisation or secret society in this game is just a backside stuff, you see nothing related to it. the whole game is just the mc banging girls. nothing more.

- the good :
the women and petite women have very beautifull faces and their bodies are realistic.
the story and dialogs are interesting, there are no cringe dialogs like in some other games where sleeping with his daughter is involved and where the author is trying to bring some kind of cringe justification for incest for 10 hours. like :
'what am i doing ? it's not right' for 10 hours then in the end :
'you see, my daughter, what's important is that the 2 people love each other with true love, then it is natural and healthy for then to F each other ... blabla".
yeah sure.
here the author didn't embarassed himself with those nonsenses.

- Conclusion : 4 star because the game is better than average ( beautifull girls and smart writting, not boring ), but in my opinion : if you want a game with correct animations then don't bother downloading, the animations here are just grotesque and comical.

also the whole story is just about the mc dating and banging ( training ) young girls , the organisation he works for and train the girls for ? you see nothing in the game. no events, nothing. you just know there are girls and their masters, and that's it.
so if you wanna see something else than the improbable mc banging girls , don't bother downloading.
i was expecting some "inside the organisation" stuff but no. hell you even don't know what the girls do and never see what they do , just assuming they're escorts. like i said this game is just about the mc fuking girls.

I played through v0.23 in a week or so of evenings.

On the plus side:
• The secret society premise is fascinating.
• There is a lot of game to play.
• Numerous hot LIs, most of whom are just barely eighteen.
• The MC has his own sex dungeon.
On the negative:
• The animations are of the simple morph-between-two-positions type, which look so bad I think the game would have been better without them.
• The render-per-scene ratio is one of the lowest I can recall seeing.
• Scene transitions are not telegraphed at all.
• There is little variety in the musical tracks.
• Most of the scenes are slice-of-life stuff that is not very exciting. We get only occasional glimpses of what goes on in THS, which is more interesting content.
• What we do see of the workings of THS seem fragmentary and somewhat nonsensical. My impression is that the dev has only a vague idea how the society is supposed to function, and is making it up as they go along.
• Water is unbelievably dense in the world of THS.

During much of my play time I found myself a little bored at the slow pace, but every once in a while a hot scene would come along that woke me up. I’d probably rate it at 3.5 stars if I could, but will round up to 4. Recommended if you have lots of time and nothing better to do.

Game has a good balance between story and sexual content. Love the girls and the renders as well. Also the lesbian content is a great bonus and the main reason I keep checking back for updates. Hope we see more of those!

Excellent game the storyline is much less outlandish Tham many and progress is paced excellently. I am looking forward to more development with the society job and manager job casting couch a possiblity?

0.19 Surprisingly wholesome "incest" like bdsm harem game. At first I avoided this title, especially in its text form but now with proper visuals added to this story it is by far one of the better ones. At least plot wise it is really well written. To the point that I no longer skip most of the "plot" just to go to erotic bits. If you don't skip then its an erotic story for few hours of your time and I do not think of it as time wasted. Girls are really well fleshed out. Each has unique kinks and desires. It is bordering on realism.

The only thing I would change is how most scenes have only one animation or perspective and many of them aren't that good for my taste. Models are excellent. Renders really good. Plot well written, but only in erotic moments this game didn't excel as much as I wanted it to. Story is linear tied to days. Which is why it is progressing smoothly. Each day players have few choices to make. Some more significan't like skipping whole storylines and focusing on other characters. Others so insignifican't that its a wonder why they even added such choice to begin with. Either way, I really liked this story. First I played 0.13 but after that I downloaded 0.19 because I wanted more of it.

The Higher Society Illustrated [v0.19] "with Walkthrough"

Pros:
Premise
Story
Pacing
Many Girls
Sex Scenes
Fetishes
Good amount of content

Could be better:
Render quality is average and lacks proper lighting sometimes.
Animations are decent but could be better.
I feel that except maybe Angelina, most of the girls are too easy and their process of corruption could be told better.
The maid and Wife lack importance.

Conclusion:
I think this is one of the better "Harem" games out there.
Sure, there are things that could be better, like the things mentioned above.
But this one really does a good job of telling an intruiging story without leaving you blueballed.
The whole premise of a secret society and you recruiting girls is a great idea, and it's surprising that not many have tried that already.
I think there are a lot of things you could do with the secret society, the way you could corrupt girls and especially the wife in participating with them, adding more kinky stuff etc.
All in all, this is a good game and I can recommend playing it.

Generic but not the worst harem game I have played. Overall, the premise and the THS story contradict eachother. It feels like the harem nature of the story doesn't make sense with the premise and vice versa. In a harem game, I would prefer that the premise and the harem aspect flow in unison and feel more natural. I think the THS premise is more suited to a pure corruption story rather than a harem story. Also, the ageplay can be a bit weird and gross sometimes.

Played v18. There are two versions. A text only version and an illustrated version. The text only version is always a bit ahead. Visual novel with a linear plot and a male MC, that becomes part of a secret society and ends up training a slavegirl for the society. All relationships are consensual.
Sadly incest is once again a major fetish in this game and I am kind of burned out when it comes to incest. The main girls are your slave maid, your daughter, and the girl who is your daughter’s age and wants you to be her daddy. Plus a bunch of girls their age. I personally found the MC’s wife more attractive. So the slow build and daddy-daughter relationship stuff was not for me – if you like incest it’s probably great though.
Dialogue and narration is a bit wooden in places but bearable. Normally I don’t comment on lighting and animations, but here there are several scenes where the lighting changes midscene for no reason which is really annoying.
Concerning bdsm there’s rough sex, domination, spanking, device bondage, some bondage, some chastity and denial play and light slave training. There’s quite a lot of content.
The annoying part was that I felt like your training of the girls didn’t change them at all – if you were strict and punished them they acted exactly the same as when you were indulgent and didn’t punish them. It’s a bit frustrating if you train a slavegirl and her behavior stays the same no matter what you do.
Personally I'd give it three stars, but considering that an average player who likes incest would give it four stars I'll be generous