Ren'Py - Completed - The Pilgrimage [v2.10] [Messman]

Updated Review for v1.9

Update: My feelings about this game remain the same. Provided you're into the content, each update has been consistently hitting with more of what everyone already loves about the game. Really can't complain.

One of those games that feels like it was made for me. Hot women + weird aliens/creatures is my niche fetish that very rarely gets done well. Plus it's set in the Mass Effect universe AND we play as Tali? Suffice to say, this hits for me.

As mentioned, the main draw is seeing a hot alien get banged by not so hot aliens. If you aren't into that, this isn't a game for you. If you are though, this is among the best of the genre.

I also like that this is more gamified than a lot of AVNs. I think the exploration stuff works well, the combat isn't super frustrating, and the dev has even managed to implement some uncommon mechanics like door hacking and the vent system which I can't imagine was easy to force into Ren'Py, and even more so make it fun.

I would have expected porn plot and dialogue, but it surprised me that this seems to be a bit more competent than that. Though nothing incredible, there's a serviceable story in the background that's making this a lot better to progress through than something like a standard fuckfest where things like that are more or less forgotten about.

I typically despise having to be defeated to get sex scenes, and even though this game does have some of those, I'm really glad a majority are able to be gotten without having to bother losing in combat. Very few moments are game overs, so you're usually able to get right back into things after a scene. It's the same thing with corruption. Usually don't like it, but here I'm finding myself enjoying how Tali's switch get progressively flipped as she ends up getting into it while still hanging onto some of those moral dilemmas.

I'm going to be honest and say because this game is so far up my alley at its core, I'm easily willing to overlook a lot of the (imo) minor issues that without a doubt exist. The sex scenes are both really good and somewhat janky at the same time? The resolution is not the best either. While I don't mind the corruption, I don't really like that it's tied to an arbitrary number that I have to grind to increase. Plus with their being variations and different scenes based on lewd level, it becomes especially annoying to manage sometimes. The vent system is pretty fun, but navigation does get tedious at points for sure. Combat can feel like it's just getting in the way when you want to progress sometimes as well.

Still, really enjoy the game and have already returned to it multiple times. Definitely a favorite of mine.

Version 1.65 reviewed.

There's a lot more game here than most visual novels have, and while it's not a "management game" there are some repetitive loops built in that can make the story progression feel artificially slowed down and grindy.

For Mass Effect players, this is pure fan service. As a Tali fan, a game centered around her corruption is simultaneously enticing and anethema.

The story presented is somewhat formulaic, but the writing is generally competent and devoid of typos.

The environments feel "Mass Effecty" enough as do most of the "creatures" Tali must entertain as she works through the storyline.

What works:

The fan service feels pretty worthy
There's lots of sex with many kinks offered
Tali naked
Pretty complex inventory and economy systems
The atmosphere is pretty on-point

What doesn't:

Renders are grainy and low quality...Animations are worse
The interval between certain timed events feels poorly-calibrated

I appreciate this title in a lot of ways. It interested me enough to suffer through the grind, and I frequently found "hidden" lewds with minor variations in unexpected places.

I also don't believe I've ever seen Tali convincingly portrayed outside her environment suit, and whether this version is canon or not, it feels spot on to the mental image I had before playing this game, making her sexy and alien at the same time.

Fun without being groundbreaking, sexy without necessarily being fappable, and with lots of story and variations of scenes, this is a solid 4 Star effort in my book.

I look forward to seeing this evolve.

I have been playing it since it released.

Things I liked -
1. Graphics/Images/Animation are good and It's keep improving on time.
2. Large number of scenes (animations)
3. Text Dialogs and Storyline is impressive
4. Multiple endings and Multiple choice based scenes.
5. Original Look-alike characters
6. Genre is best I ever seen.

I completely loved this game. In future updates it would even become more better.

There is a good ammount of content for the ammount of work that was put in. The game has good pacing and the scenes are great and are also lot of fun. The pilgrimage is absolutely worth five stars, all the way.

this game has a good story, nothing that makes us bored but curious to know more, very well crafted scenes, this is one of the few games focused on monsters, but with quality, a game that is worth downloading, this one I think it was the second game that I supported on subscribestar and I don't regret anything..

one of the few games (I can't count more than 4) that exceeds expectations + interesting story + worth to play and enjoy your time.

Great mechanics and animations. There is room for improvement, but the potential is incredible; all this dev needs is money for Voice Acting and SFX... and then BOOM... gold mine.

Personally I'd like for the dev to expand and finish this story line before going for a new game, and I'm curious to see what different worlds he can build with it (basically a game in different styles for example a modern, or medival setting, etc...)

The only bad thing I can nitpick (which is just personal preference anyways, so take that with a grain of salt) is that the giant crocodile, the giant gorillas and the spiders don't fit the 10/10 direction this game could go for.

Other than that, I wouldn't want to change any of the Tags and Category. I'm ready to see the updates, keep it up!

Good game, very promising so far.
If you are interested in monster/beastiality stuff this one is obviouse choice. Hope the author coninue to deliver same or even higher quality animation.

Just one note, maybe there are too many bad ends(?). You know, like, you going whoring Tali out just to see more animation and bam, bad end. I wouldn't mind increasing "slut" level of Tali without a severe punishment.

[[--------------REVIEW BASED ON V1.55--------------]]


Very nice and promising game, I played through it 3x in a single day and enjoyed each time. Finding new scenes each time!

There's not an unbelievable amount of content/scenes but with the lewdness system it all feels fresh and developted!

Very nice to see Messman have a good sense of what toa dd to the game and where things to go!

A beautiful one. Scenes are super, sometimes unexpected. Texture are good. Plot is not boring. Scenes are appearing always through the game. Looking forward to a new update. It is really cool that scenes are with sound,but i think its a bit quiet, music is much louder :0

No bugs found, but some textures, which are "touchable", have strange kinda net around them (like if they are just input from paint). It is just visual part,but it could be great if you fix it

Hey, this game is rocks! Rape, monsters, Tali and more rape - it's all mixing together in great salad of porn! Animation maybe have an ugly piece or two but it's nothing compare to the all good stuff in game. Main character pretty good loking (with some huge dicks in her holes too!) and game has some realy-realy hot scene with "little old submissive Tali". Plot is not complicate but hey - i don't ask about it in porn. Well - game is great and maybe excellent! Play it buy youself to make sure!

P.S. sry for my bad english

Perfect Ren'Py game with a huge amount of sexual content to satisfy your monster x humanoid girl needs as well as BESTiality needs. Incredibly sexy, a perfect amount of dialogue, and that amount is enough to have a story but not too much to get bored by pointless talking between characters, sexual dialogue ranges from ok to perfect. Animations are fantastic.

The characters seem to not have the most intricate personalities, but who are we kidding, this is a porn game, and I came to this game to satisfy myself sexually, not to relate and grow with the characters or whatever. And this game does that fantastically.

I do recommend this game and the developer as they're not juicing horny people for money, the only juicing that is happening is the juice cooming out of the pp's of people that play this game, as I have never played mass effect and never had anything for Tali, but fell in love with her and her sexuality in this game.

Female x Monster perfection.

I didn`t expect this game to be this good. Decent writing, good CGs. The grinding is just right, not too much but not to little. An engaging game with good scenes. Multiple endings (Although all are "bad endings) are well animated and it made me explore all the possible CGs and their respective variations, You would be surprised how much content there is. I recommend this game and I hope to see more as soon as possible.

Amazing.

Graphic 4.5/5
Story 4.5/5
Writing 5/5
Characters 5/5
Game design 5/5
Choices 4.5/5

There were only a few porn games where I was double checking in corners if there was a scene I missed because I craved more, for that the game not only must be good, but also original and interesting. This is one of these games, with every situation rousing curiosity, having some fun twist or at least a fun dialogue. It's great.
It also has a big amount of good porn in hot situations.
5/5.

I have played good amount of games now on this site and this has to be the best one I've played. There's something about the combat that just works so well. It's not like the combat is hard or tedious it's just there to serve the purpose of losing and dealing with the consequences which are mostly the focus of the game.

It has a strong corruption element mixed into this making the non-consent much closer to just reluctant consent which I think works very well.

Overall what makes it my favourite would be the replayability. I don't know what it is about that early game but that gameplay and appeal just sucks me right in. I must have replayed it 4+ times now . I think there's only a few other games here I've ever felt the need to replay once so it's a standout.

I've been avoiding the game because I'm not the biggest fan of weird looking alien&monster girls.
It turns out, our protagonist have a really beautiful face with human body proportions (Only except having 2 less fingers and uhh, skin colour)
So if you're a normie trash like me, you have nothing to worry about.

I didn't even finished the game by the time I'm writing this review.
This game is pure diamond, the best renpy game I've ever played in years.
Completely player friend with simplistic story, no bullshit mechanics, right amount of corruption and hardcore porn.
Attention to detail is freaking awesome.
As a renpy developer, I didn't know you could make an "Actual game" like this.
This game showed us lazy devs that it can be done

Many thanks to developer for bringing us this

Okay so I have two conflicting biases here, so let's see which one wins out in this review
Firstly, if you haven't taken note of my name I'm a bit of a fan of Tali Zorah and mass effect as a whole. Sadly there just isn't much in the way of mass effect adult parody games so I put aside my usual differences to give this a shot which brings me to my second Bias:
I have a strong disdain for 3D games that bloat this site, they always use the same off putting uncanny valley models and have the stiffest animations and it always baffled me how people managed to bust nuts to them.

Turns out this game is pretty baller tho and I drained my fat fucking nuts no problem, probably because holy hell do I simp for Tali.

Story isn't anything new (think there was some Jap Kinetic novel called creature inside the ship or something that has the exact same premise) of some lady investigating some derelict ship and being assaulted by weird creatures but who really cares about that, porn stories usually are just set ups for scenes and there's really nothing wrong with that.

Gameplay is pretty awful ngl, also a staple of porn games usually but you can go play the actual mass effect games while salivating over Tali if it really bothers you. Boils down to searching the same rooms over and over for some currency you'll seldom use because you also stumble across ammo and grenades while searching and combat is just garbage shoot a few times to maybe win or throw a grenade and definitely win but why do either when you can just get fucked to no real detriment. Also there's alot of waiting for shit to happen in this game (like you give some dumbo your omni tool and scrap to fix it to progress the game but it takes like a week to be fixed and you can't do much except comb the rooms until then)

Now the part the actually matter, the cooming. I didn't COME here for beast action and kinda thought there'd be more stuff with the merc crew on the ship and beast stuff really isn't my thing but guess what? I coomed, felt my gnards fucking quivering buddy. Models are hot, animations are hot, scenes are hot, positions are hot, writing is hot, so my balls are hot. Never thought I'd wack off to Tali getting fucked by a blind one from metro exodus but here we are, proud parents and all

Game in such an early state still provides plenty of content and the dev is very active and engaging with the community, only thing keeping it from 5 stars is the gameplay.


Update: Due to the sheer amount of quality content added, at a very steady and reliable pace, I can no longer in good conscious give this anything less than 5 stars. I do still stand by complaints about gameplay and a few other things but this game is not only of my favorite waifu ever but a gold standard for what games on this site should provide. Thank you so much messman

About as good as a game can get, this should be considered the gold standard, without a doubt my favorite. Disregarding the type of content in itself(which i'm a fan of), the mechanics are simple and not too boring, so it doesnt make you lose interest in the game, the amount of content is great and it's divided nicely along the interactions. I'm not much of a game critic or a critic at all, but for all that i've played of this games and it's updates so far it's always been a pleasant experience.

Good shit.
Even tho this game is linear, it still gives you a lot of freedom. You can play it any way you like.
Another thing is its v0.13 and it has A Lot of content already.
I havent encountered any bugs, except for the ones in the bathroom
Art is top notch, i love it.
Corruption is slow and smooth.
Can't rate the story at this version, but what i can say is considering how much the current story revolves around just this small alien invasion, i can already tell this is going to be a Massive game once its completed.

I almost always post Cons when i rate games, but this game has none atm.

Do you like monsters forcing their way onto/into a woman in a spaceship sci fi setting?
Do you like knotting where the dev actually has the critter shove the knot in the recipient?
Do you like playing a game that had a bunch of people in the forums going "boohoohoo I don't like those fets no one should be allowed to like them" like little bitches and now you can jerk off to what those dweebs didn't like?
If you answers yes to any or all of those is this the game for you! Only failed to get the full 5 stars for two reasons, 1) It's still got some bugs, errors in some scenes and 2) Mostly focuses on only one woman on the receiving end, some additional variety would have been nice. Really though, great addition to the 'monster fucks woman' genre, play if you want to see that.

Doesn't Disappoint.

The kind of game I would make if I had the abilities. The game starts out quickly and without mincing words. You understand the story and the characters and immediately get to the action. Dialogue doesn't go on forever and I never felt like there were many words wasted. The scenes are great, animation is plenty serviceable, and I like the fluid dynamics. You're gettin it on with alien fauna, so expect mostly that.

Only downsides are that renpy is a goofy system. There's some objectives that don't complete immediately. Sometimes, you feel like you need to complete certain objectives to progress or that you're unaware of how to get to the next stage. But, you just need to keep playing and completing whatever you think is right. Don't start the game over like I did. Just keep playing and an event will begin.

Running is a valuable strategy and you can ping-pong off areas to avoid a lot of encounters. If you salvage enough rooms then you'll never be at a loss for ammunition. Speaking of ammo, combat is not a driving force in this game yet. It's there to give some pacing to encounters and a little extra agency for the player. In the future, some parameters and gear might be fun to dabble with. Maybe some combat or ero stats on gear/consumables. Models and textures look good in almost every situation. Animations can be a little choppy sometimes but everything is serviceable.

Despite these small issues I have (a little confusing to progress, barebones combat, etc.) these do not detract from the overall experience. You're going to enjoy this game. Just give it a few minutes of your time for it to get going. I look forward to future releases.