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

I really like this game! Why? First, MC is not a pushover and he also isn't a 15 year old boy! Instead we play a caring father who is also a succesfull actor who enjoys life and its benefits. I wrote caring father as he is not an asshole but what I like is, he prefers to be dominant in the game, stands with both feet on the ground and knows what he wants. Right from the start you have the opportunity to be the master of your own cute 18 year blonde sub who doesn't mind at all! Lets bring it all together: We have a cute likable blonde sub to train, a teenage daughter who is starting to explore her sexuality and is interested in the sexual "actions" of her father and finally we have our sexy understanding wife who is very willing reagarding BDSM experiments in our own BDSM basement at home?! YES! By the way, sex scenes in this game range from normal vanilla sex, to male dominant, to kinky BDSM sex options (paddle anyone?) This game hits all my checkboxes from a male domination view! Therefore I rate 5 stars and Im continue to follow this dev. Thanks dev!

[v0.6]

This is a mixed bag. On one hand, the dev is not afraid to craft a story that doesn't fall squarely into some preconceived genre conversions. It explores certain themes like BDSM, coming of age, religious polygamous cult-like societies, predatory film industry, and high society sex clubs in a somewhat grounded and mature way. On the other hand, the writing and pacing suffers greatly from drab and mundane everyday events and conversations.

The game is LONG. I've churned through about 90% of the current release and skipped the rest. It's long, but it's also incredibly monotonous and rather boring. There is just not much excitement in between all the day to day activities.

Hearing the internal monologues of certain NPCs has a negative impact on the story, imo. Gregory's character is one that suffers from any lack of suspense because we are reading his straightforward sexual predator thought process. He could have been an ominous and mysterious character who the players could suspect was up to no good,but had no definite proof of. Instead, we know exactly what he is doing which makes the MC and the other characters debating his trustworthiness rather farcical.

The visuals are passable. The sex scenes are on the short side. Not fappable, imo.

The coding is pretty limited. Maybe 1 out of 10 choices will set a flag to be used later. All other choices are flavor text or scene selection choices that will not be tracked by the game. Most of the flags that do get set don't usually do much either. It alters a few dialogues here and there. There was only one choice that really meant anything so far. So this is mostly a linear VN, in case that is a significant issue for you. I try not to be too harsh on linearity since it is a design decision to keep the developmental bloat in check, but it does lead to a worse final product in most cases.

While the game presents some interesting scenarios, it is ultimately mired by the repetitive and monotonous day to day progression.

I finished v0.6 and I'm very impressed with this game. Sometimes I prefer to skip unseen dialogue when I'm anticipating a gameplay that seems to follow the more popular cookie cutter, just-wants-to-have-sex-with-everything type of plot. However, because there are many choices that (seem to) affect potential outcomes as well as captivating characters, this game really drew me in with its content as well as moral decisions and their potential effect. It's the sign of a good game when you're disappointed that you have to wait another week, month, etc. for the next release and this game does that in spades.

A very well done game! It hits all the strong points for building anxiety for the MC being a caring individual (if you ant him to be). You have a bewitching sub to train, a daughter who is just starting to explore her sexuality and wants to do it with you. A sexy, permissive wife who likes to take it up the ass. I mean, really, what else could you ask for? Also, there's a Harvey Weinstein kind of guy that you immediately hate, a best friend bof your daughter to save from a wack job religious cult, and a sweet aspiring atress who wants to jump you! My only complaint is that this is still early in development and there isn't much sexual content yet (you get to bang your wife and your sub). The renders are not stellar, but are above average. The lewd scenes are well paced with dialogue fitting the theme that kinda gets your motor runnig. All in all a well put together VN!

Fair warning, I am not a fan of incest so I should have never played this game, but because it seemed like she was the step-daughter, I decided to brave the waters.

So the good... There is a lot to like here. The renders are good and the content is frequent and well done. The story also seems to be pretty well thought out and if nothing else, the dev goes all in on the concept and it seems to work.

I always struggle with games like this with girls that look just a little too young, but for the most part, the girls do look at least 18 but it is borderline. Also, I struggled with the guy being married. I think I would have liked this a lot more if the MC was single as I had a hard time buying the wife being so compliant. I am not saying this isn't possible... maybe it is... but it just goes back to my comfort level and I just was not comfortable.

To be fair, there were plenty of warnings there for me and I should have guessed what it was going to be like, so I can't really slam the game as a result. So, if you are like me and some of this stuff makes you uncomfortable, then try something else. If you are into this stuff, the dev seems committed and it is well written and well thought out so you should give it a try.

Brilliant game - very compelling story and all the characters are wonderfully fleshed out and believable - posssibly best of all is the fact that the choices you make have real impact and unlike some others I have played I found myself pondering my choices in quite some detail before making them. Really looking forward to more instalments.

Well written story so far. Women looking good. Believable looking MC for his role in the story. Devs have many different paths to utilize in story. The pace of the game is right on time. See-saw animations are a distraction.

4.5 out of 5 for 0.4.

Vers0.4
I didn't like the title, I expected average girly VIP gossip, but luckily I was wrong.
The story hooked me right away, not to much text and everything important and interesting. No reason to skip, to be honest in 95% of games i skip skip skip all the time because to much boring text but this game has an awesome storyline. I wish more games have such a good story!!! And on top the sex is kinky awsome, everything between vanilla dominant and very rough! The player has the choice, well made game with awesome girl characters!

Pro
- Story AAA
- Renders
- Character development
- Pretty girls
- very kinky and you have a choice between nice and understanding, rough or very rough asshole
- good choices

Contra
- animations could be more and better
but the game is new and I hope for future updates

Very well made characters. Storyline is interesting. The relationship between MC and his wife is ... a little unbelievable, the author hasn't really sold that to me yet, but it's not a huge deal. Very few typos, English is solid, not much in the way of immersion-breaking issues. 5/5

Good amount of content, i thought it would be way less in terms of character and story build up. I like the most scenarios that evolve during the conversations. In terms of sexual scenes, im always a sucker for long drawn out diferent positions and more thant just 2 moving scenes back and forth. I appreciate most of all the intensity of the female side. Its not over the top and reasonable still i like to see woman cum more often than not, instead of 1 scene move to Man orgasm. The more pleasure for woman the better.
Keep it up i hope you get more attention. You deserve it with this project.

Review v0.2:

This is a game with a story that is not exactly new or original in itself, but it seems quite rare as a Ren'py game.

I'll give a short overview:
The MC, a movie actor, get's involved with a secret society where they train sex slaves. The MC is quickly assigned a young new slave to be trained. The MC is happily married, his wife is reasonably on board with the situation. His daughter, who is more or less the same age as the slave, also develops feelings for daddy. At work, the MC is shooting a movie with a young actress who is playing his daughter, there seem to be some feelings developing there as well.

What I like about this game:
- Relatively limited amount of love interests, all of whom are pretty well developed characters. They are not sock puppets but have their own feelings, ideas and goals which may or may not always align with the MC.
- Even though the subject seems a bit outlandish, the story is realistically written.
- The story telling strikes a really good balance between the story parts and the erotic parts, so that the story parts are enhancing the sexual tension between the characters.
- The BDSM part of the story, which is, perhaps surprisingly, not the majority of the story and so far involving only 1 of the 4 love interests, is more BD and less SM. Although I am not an expert on this topic, I feel this is really well done as well.
- The renders and character models, are, although not ground breakingly gorgeous, doing their job in supporting the story very well.

In short, in terms of story, this game is one of the best, in my opinion. The renders perhaps do not make this game extraordinary but they don't distract either, so I'll give it 4.5 points, rounded off to 5.

It's worth to notice that the dev has a rather "innovative" policy with this game. The text-only version (which I did not play) is being updated regularly, while the illustrated one is released for Patreons only. This may put some players off, but I am happy that I played this one up to this point and I will await the final release or other periodical releases when leaked or released by the dev.

I really feel like this game is getting too much of a bad press for all the wrong reasons.

The content is great. The story is lewd, kinky and mysterious. The characters and art are beautiful.

Worth supporting if you ask me.

Certainly not worth bitching about pirated copies of the latest versions being available super promptly.

IMHO etc.

I wish the dev all the very best.

The good:
- the writing is pretty good most of the time
The bad:
- story (quite nonsensical even for porn games standards)
- art/models
- renders (discount Dating my daughter quality, it would be maybe passable 5 years ago)
- "animations" 3-5 frames, i have seen worse only once twice on this site
- music - i have no idea why he used this garbage when there is a ton of non-copyrighted music out there, this is beyond bad
- so far every female character other than your wife looks like 14 years old teenager, that's around 70-80% of the game
- from what i've seen in the comments - only checked 1st and last page (5th at the time of writing it), the dev is kind of an asshole towards any critique or comment, while it's not part of the game it still managed to diminish my "enjoyment"

It would be 2/5, but all the characters other than wife look like little girls, which is a major turnoff for me. If you are ok with it, expect 2/5 or 3/5.

This is an illustrated version of a VN (The Higher Society) that started out with no real models--just static pictures of the characters. Now, instead of cut out doll pictures flashing on the screen, that never change whether the person is inside, outside, dressed or nude, you get a changing 3D person, and real backgrounds.
The story follows a movie actor who is a member of a secret society, and his interactions with his mentor, a trainee of the society, and his family.
The story is captivating even without the visuals. With this illustrated version, you understand the saying "a picture is work a thousand words." This version is way behind the non-illustrated version, in terms of the amount of DAYS released.. It would be much better when (if?) the visuals catch up to the written story already released. There is plenty of sex scenes, but no actual incest. The MC has sex with multiple partners (and his wife is OK with that!) There is some light BDSM (consensual).