Ren'Py - The Pilgrimage [v2.05] [Messman]

I was a bit hesitant to give this a try, since I put a lot of time into Mass Effect back when it was new, and was worried this would be some low-effort porn that doesn't capture the feel of it. 100% wrong on my part, this is the real deal. Some shortcomings for sure - 'combat' is kind of extraneous, there's repetition where there doesn't need to be - but on a fan game, nothing even worth losing a 5-star rating. It's hot and horny, but more than that it's obviously made by folks who get Mass Effect and put real effort into making a Mass Effect porn game, not just a porn game with Mass Effect CG models in it. Pour more story and characters in and I could easily get properly invested in this as an RPG, as it is it's still a ton of fun, and I'd highly recommend anyone who likes the sound of Tali getting her inhibitions thoroughly ruined in a fun and very varied series of escapades give this a try.

I love games where you slowly corrupt the mc and this game is perfect if you want to see tali get corrupted by monster cock I kept thinking i about finished what was left of the current story only to find new areas and cutscenes high quality art and alot of it

If you are into this kind of thing - this is straight out perfect. I 'binged' it in few hours. animations are beautiful. story actually captivating. Maybe too little characters to interact with, but, then again - early version + "not exactly 'human' interaction orriented game".
It's wonderful. I will most likely support creator.

A one-of-a-kind game that strikes a balance between quantity and quality. Long live the generator of wonderful ideas and plots. Someday we will call this game a role model. Thank you for your excellent work.

Excellent game with dev answering questions at the forum regularly and giving regular updates every month and a half or two. Highly recommend it as one of if not the best games still coming out these days.

Rated version 2.05

I'm not quite sure why this is held in such a high regard by so many. Is it just the Mass Effect IP? I played for about an hour, so it might "get better 5 hours in". Also, 10 GB? Geez.

Gameplay:
I do not understand this need some AVN devs have to include sandbox or gameplay elements that aren't even worthy of the name. Either you go all in, build some complex and satisfying gameplay elements and build the game entirely on top of that or you make some (very) short and sweet standalone minigames before going for the lewds. This one is neither. Its gameplay is required to progress and it also features the ever so lovely "corruption" stat which you'll grind ever so slowly while encountering the same scenes over and over again. Granted, at least the grind is not as bad as some other games.

There's a repetetive sandbox where you visit the same rooms over, scan for interactable parts (some of which still have an unintentional outline around them that make the entire thing look cheap) and do that over and over again to collect some "tech parts". After you found the three spawn spots for interactable loot you're basically left to grind and continue whenever the game proceeds to the next stage.
Every now and then a monster interrupts you and you're thrown into a very very basic combat scenario where you either wait for time to run out or you click one of the like 3 options you got.
Lose and you're rewarded by some plain and boring monster on quarian action.

Progress itself seems to advance by collecting enough "tech parts" to complete certain "quests" or simply by sleeping often enough.
Later on some decryption and monster dog minigame is introduced which feels entirely tacked on. You click when the slow moving cursor is in the right spot. That's it.
To the game's credit all of its mechanics are explained, though I found myself stuck a couple of times on how to advance the game progress.

Visuals:
You can judge the visuals for yourself. To be frank I find Tali's model rather ugly. The remaining models are at best mediocre as well.
The stop motion animations were not particularly impressive with short loops of a handful of key frames at most.
Scenes, just the ship frankly, are not well lit but at least they are somewhat consistent.

Plot:
Tali is on her pilgrimage, tries to scavenge some derelict ship and immediately loses her ship, gets raped by some wild monster and now "works with" some pirates trying to fix their pirate ship. That's about it and about as far as I read before I just skimmed through most dialog. I'm familiar with the setting though you really don't need the background knowledge to get what's going on. You might recognize the species and are immediately familiar when organisations like the Alliance or Cerberus are mentioned. But for all intents and purposes a lot of the world building is thrown out for the lewds anyhow (a futa Asari, Tali being far too unbothered by her suit being damaged, Tali being a nympho...).
Given those liberties I didn't expect much from the story and I certainly wasn't looking forward to 5 to 10 minutes more grind before the plot actually progressed.

Conclusion
Granted, I'm not a big Tali or Mass Effect fan and I dislike monster rape games. But even despite that, I fail to see how this game is held in the same regard as more well narrated, less sandbox-y and/or visually pleasing games on this site.
If you're not head over heels into Tali and/or monster action I wouldn't bother with this one.

+ Excellent graphics and animation.
+ Nice setting (for those who love Mass Effect).
+ Lots of different events.

- Many events have a short text description.
- Fetishes are not for everyone (personally, I don’t understand how meter-long dicks fit into a quarian, but that’s a matter of taste).
- There is some unreality. Do you know plumber porn? It’s the same here, only with space plumbers. Yes, this is a porn space game, but such moments can be realized more realistically.

Overall: the game is very good, despite the listed disadvantages (and these disadvantages are subjective).

One of the best if not the best sandbox game ever. Scenes are repeatable, no tedious grinding, game overs are easily avoidable and stated in the changelog. It has one of the smoothest animations I've ever seen (the new animations that is). So much content to explore and a little bit of everything for everyone.

Don't get why this game is rated so highly, the visuals and renders are mediocre at best. The amount of story content that is available for a v2.0 release is very lackluster and the gameplay is split up in 2 main parts, the first part becomes very repetitive very quick. Every day you wake up click all the boxes in each room and go to sleep until you get a message that you can progress further in the story quest (which sometimes takes a while so you just end up spamming sleep several days in a row). And the second part is this clunky maze you have to traverse which is very disorienting and doesn't feel nice at all to play through. The sex scenes themselves are few and far between if you don't count the repeatable monster scenes. Perhaps if you are a fan of mass effect you'd enjoy this game.

Awesome Dev, great game, great community. This is literally the first and only game i have ever supported financially. I hope he keeps up the great work. In fact, if this game ever has an actual end, I'll support the devs future endeavors, because i feel like he genuinely listens to comments people have, and recommendations. English isn't even his first language, and he does a pretty good job.

Great game with a consistent developer !!
This guy doesn't only create the game by himself but also replies to people in this thread, Replies to people in his discord server and also keeps everyone on subscribestar updated

Probably the best game of it's kind I've ever played! Visually stunning, the game focuses on rough, hard submissive sex, teasing etc. around a whole range of different creatures from humanoids to monsters to just about everything else I can imagine.

Where many VN's are so verbose you're forced to skip just to get to the stuff you're there for inside an hour - which ironically defeats both the story and the fun stuff -, here the pacing is spot on. The story and characters are interesting, but they never forget about the fun stuff. There's a reason to go back and visit old content for new scenes, yet the game most definitely is not grindy. Where many H-games handle progression by forcing you through hours of tedium just to get to where the game even starts getting fun, here that process is both swift and fun in itself!

There's a lot more to say but really, if any of the above sounds like your thing, this game is an absolute must!

Stands above most of your run of the mill games. Not the greatest animations, but still pretty great and lewd and with regular fulfilling updates. Hence 5 stars. Even more so if you're into this kind of videogame.

Genuinely one of the better porn games I've played. Never made a review but this game deserves it. Gameplay in porn games has never been an important to me, but I think this game has changed that for me. The gameplay is turn based combat point and click exploration done in a unexpectedly fun and addictive loop. I will be following the development of this until it's done.

Not much to add here. I love Tali, I love to see Tali getting railed.

Cool visuals? check.
Asari futa? check.
Lots of content? check
Tali and more Tali? check.

Did I say I love Tali?

Great game! Will def keep track of this one and look forward to what more it has in stock.

I mean, I'm a huge ME fanboi in general and Tali in particular, and I knew right away that I'll like this game. I was wrong. Because I F%^&@#G LOVE IT.

Renders are great.
Story and characters are decent. More than I expected for sure.
Scenes are 10/10. You can feel the soul in every last one of them. And you can see huge improvements in quality as story goes by.
Fetishes... Tentacles, doggos, huge monkes, slimes, insects, futas, etc... dev shot em like cupid arrows straight to my heart.

In other words: sensational.

The best renpy female protagonist non-VN game I have ever played.
Excellent erotic scenes, covering many kinds of sexual fetishes.
The creator is very sincere in every update, and I highly recommend this game.

It started with a Let's bang ok now we are here


Story 9/10 there is a story to follow it's kind
Of interesting but that's not what your
Here for right.....

Renders 10/10 Tali looks hot as fuck
Also the other asari are chefs kiss

Kinks 10/10 hardcore my kind of kinks
Corruption,rape etc

Content 10/10 made me hard as fuck for a fictional
Characters so great


So messman continue but suggestion for strip or
submit is great, suggestion below me

Approved by shephard and council of men ,cheers

Out of all the games I've played on f95, this is the game I would recommend most so far.
The pacing between story progression and lewd content is almost perfect, and the interface is visually appealing.
The vent area in the game really surprised me, and was fun to explore.
Tali is of course a real hottie, and it's fun to watch her get into sticky situations; especially with the high quality of most of the sequences.

If I would change something about the game, I would add the option to upgrade the gun to make minor battles less of a hassle.
I would also add a "strip" or "submit" button to most battles, to give the player more control over triggering some lewd content.

I've been seeing this game for a while in the forums and never tried it, let's say for "judging a book by its cover", until finally deciding to give it a try and it gave me several great surprises.

The premise is simple, alien humanoid gets lost in a spaceship full of savage aliens, so you won't be involved into a complex drama but you get what you come for. As any story involving aliens, you will, mostly, be put in danger of being attacked by mindless creatures that are bigger and stronger than you and every other human is.

The renders look, and that is why it took me even years to notice the game, pretty old, and that is because of the amount of polygons used in the models, but don't get me wrong, the character design is excellent, since it looks it is designed from zero just for this game and the animations are just mind-blowing, the movements are fluid and rhythmically correct.

The thing I like the most is the idea of the main character recovering from every encounter she has, why? Normally games with a FMC follow the path of corruption, and that falling is proportionally inverse to the cut of the skirt. With 'ThePilgrimage' the corruption is in her words and what she does and what she lets the monsters do to her, but since you see her all the time in her armor, the corruption is less obvious, hence better.

In all accounts, a GREAT game with a beautiful MC (taking in account I'm not that much into the alien/humanoid stuff) , awesome beasts, great animation and most importantly, very professionally made.

Five stars.