VN - Ren'Py - Completed - The Point of No Return [v1.0a] [DS23Games]

One of the best adult games I have ever played. The story is well above average for this kind of games, there are 3 main paths (Defiant, Deceive, Submission) for the (hot) FMC and, even within each of them, the choices made by the player may lead to different scenes and different outcomes.
Moreover, according to the player's choices (some are more impactful than others, of course) the action will move to different locations (some exclusive for a certain path), new characters might show up...or they might not at all ^^
That's why the replay value for this game is very high, because you will need at least 3 runs to see almost everything...and even in this way you should go back to some pivotal choices to see what you might have missed.
The sex scenes are usually really hot, Jennifer (MC) is a stunning MILF (in my opinion, ofc) and also the other side characters (male and female ones) have their chances to "shine", especially Maya and Autumn, but not only them.
My only complaint is the lack of proper animations (there are some simple animated gifs, or something like that, here and there) but, aside from this very minor "issue", TPONR remains a very, very enjoyable game!

I appreciate the effort and idea, but the game is just meh.

The story is boring and unfocused, I never felt bad for the girls or was excited about the situations, I just didn´t care.

The dialogue are very boring but I didn´t find many errors so that´s good.

There are also different choices and many endings, which I like but nothing more.

The models for the girls look okay nothing more a lot of guys look bad.

There are also moments where the game is just too darkly lighted.

And the music, is very generic and often doesn´t fit, there were also way too many moments were the game is just completely silent.

The sex scenes are pretty boring, don´t look special either.


But if you like the premise try it but don´t expect too much.

Let’s get one thing clear - this is not a game that features rape, it’s a rape game. I missed the tag and it isn’t one of my kinks - but I still wanted to finish the game multiple times to see what the experience was like. Personally, it’s probably a 3. But the dev does some great work on graphics and branching story, even though I didn’t care for it.

STORY
Jennifer is a standard nerdy housewife living together with her husband Andy and her daughter Maya. Things are fine as the husband leaves for a work trip and Jennifer’s past catches up with her. A former assailant enters her house and occupies it, holding her and her daughter hostage. The scene turns darker, as the men prey their sexuality on Jennifer and Maya. You won’t be able to save the women, you will just get to pick whether they enjoy being raped or not.

While the game plays out the hostage situation for far too long, it’s actually more sensible than the latter part of the game - where you (or your daughter) are taken elsewhere by the criminals. Depending on your playthrough, the game focuses less on the mental instability of Jennifer and more on the lore around the world. Gangs are controlling parts of the world outside the city and you eventually end up in a.. illegal fighting ring. It’s quite silly actually and takes away from the thing this game set out to do - break Jennifer and her daughter.

That said, the game features porn logic and dialog - although the developer does have his grammar in check. There’s too much internal monologue and a lot of heavy acts of molestation - without the trauma that comes with it. Sure, there are some dream scenes where ‘conscience’ seems to play up. But honestly, it’s just another way for the dev to throw sexualization at the main character.

An earlier review said the criminals felt too good of character and I tend to agree with that. Someone who breaks into a home, sexually violates women and holds them hostage won’t get this carried away. But the main antagonist has a fascination for Jennifer, so I guess that explains why she isn’t molested to the point she can barely walk.

The tree branching paths spread out pretty far, but honestly none of it was really standout for me. There is NTR here (by way of phone) as well as family intimacy, all that’s missing is the psychological scarring and the visible outer molestation. It’s like you get to enjoy the violating without the backlash - maybe that’s the fantasy trope here. Honestly, it’s lost on me - also because it’s handled like something that just happens. It destroys the weight of the act.

PRESENTATION
The game looks good, sometimes great I’d say even. Jennifer isn’t my thing and Maya is 6/10 for me, but the developer makes an effort. Interiors look alright, aside from that shitty basement you’re in mostly. Violation scenes look okay and the act of using the women for personal gain is captured pretty well, so if that’s up your alley you can definitely play this. The outside-of-house scenes look pretty believable as well and overall, the graphics are the strongest department of this game.

GAMEPLAY
This is a visual novel, but your choices do have impact. There are roughly three branches you can follow with minor tweakers and each branch will give you a different experience. There’s a pure unconsented intercourse route and basically two corruption routes - with one pulling the mother out halfway to start somewhat of a redemption arc. You’d do well to play that arc regardless because it gives you extra information about the world you’re in, and at least 10 extra characters to experience.

OVERALL
The Point Of No Return wasn’t for me, but I can see how people could be into it. The graphics are nice to look at, the story paths are varied within the subject and while the characters operate on adult movie logic level, the surface responses work well enough. There’s just no sense of trauma, urgency or emotional distress that would actually elevate the dark topics this game handles.

Oh, and we could have done without the racial slurs.

6/10

I want to give this a higher score, and I don't know if that's just personal taste or because I want to commend the author for doing a few things really well, things that can be rare in the genre.

For one, it's actually finished. Yes, it could have stretched into a better story, but there's enough here for multiple acts, a rise and fall, and a sense of resolution. Some paths feel more dramatic than others, and that's ok.

Which relates to the second point: the narrative splits into completely distinct branches. There aren't very many moment-to-moment choices, but the choices that exist can change the story dramatically. The consequence of this structure is that many choices are obvious branching points, and it's a matter of choosing story A vs. story B, although some choices are convincingly obfuscated.

The writing is good like old usenet erotica was good. It has a voice, it does some writerly things, it occasionally evokes some real menace and conveys a feeling beyond horniness. Most importantly, the forward momentum of the story comes from the porn itself. watching the characters change as they react to their situations is part of the porn appeal.

The game works best in the first half when it's focused on a few of these characters, keeps the situations intimate. The bigger the story gets, the more rote it all feels. Punches are pulled, new, purely functional characters are introduced to wrap things up. As some other reviews have pointed out, there is a palpable sense of impatience from the author. By the end, it's obvious that he's ready to move on to a new project.

Hopefully, the next thing the creator works on will display more passion and commitment in its art and story, but this is a promising start to what will hopefully be a long and fruitful career.

Quite good game despite some dumb things as plot moves on, quite plenty to play since game has three paths and each path having plenty of choices which lead to either bad or good outcome (no any tips what each choice does so trial and error).

overall there are worse and better games to play overall but on it's genre it's a solod game to play.

endings come too soon and I would have preferred more submission/deception/resistant scenes and more sex scenes in all paths
Instead, it all ends leaving a lot of questions unanswered

The beginning is great but the endings are too predictable and it's like the developer was in a hurry to close...
the road of selling the girls to another gang could have been longer and contained many more events

Until the midway point the game is pretty good. With an intriguing plot, very well made scenes and interesting characters. But after that the game slowly loses it's spark. You have scenes after scenes without real content to them and the ending leaves you shallow. Personally I hope the Dev comes back to the game and reworks the last third of the game.

Decent renders, generic run of the mill corruption storyline that calls on every single trope of that playbook without doing something interesting and I cannot count the number of times Irolled my eyes at the porn logic too.

If you're extremely into that kind of story, go ahead. If not, don't bother.

Don't get me wrong, the game is good but 20+ gig? Really? In no way it has that amount of content.

I've seen this game many times and wanted to try it out but didn't have the patience to download it. I think many potential interested players will never play this game because of that. But since it's finished, I decided to go through. In the end it felt like I spent more time downloading and unpacking it than actually playing.

Regarding the game itself, as I said, it's good. You can feel the amount of work that went into it with the branching story. The cgs are quite alright as well. And alhough I genienely enjoyed it and will finish all the routes it has, I couldn't drop the constant thought "this is 20 gigs? really?"

I really recommend the dev to learn how to compress it. It will attract much more audience and will add at least 1 star to the reviews since it's the only big issue with this game

This game does do quite a few things right. The renders are excellent, the writing is good and there's an excellent sense of eroticism throughout.

The main problem is, it takes itself way, way too seriously. It is not possible to take a game with this story at all seriously because it's obviously stupid and ridiculous, yet while it starts out pretty funny the story eventually just gets more and more boringly depressing. The path I chose ended up having a completely random execution scene for seemingly no reason, which definitely soured me on the game as a whole.

The Point of No Return [v0.42]

Pros:
Decent Renders
Decent Character Models
Cool Story premise

Neutral:
Story falls apart
Quality of Sex Scenes is mixed

Cons:
No Animations
File Size (6.8 gigs for the lossy version is fucking CRAZY)
Not many choices
Choices don´t seem to matter
Dull Dialogues
Porn logic
No NTR/Cuck Warning
Sex Scenes are too vanilla


File Size:
This game nowhere near justifies to have this big of a file size.
16.5 GB for the normal version and 6.8 gigs just for the lossy version is freaking mental.
The Renders are decent, characters are average, this game has little to no animations, and it´s not even that long to make sense out of that file size.
The Dev should learn how to compress his games, because it should be 2 gigs max, with pretty much no loss in quality.

Story:
I really like the premise of the story. It´s pretty unique and I like the idea of having the Mother and her Daughter being kidnapped and used as sex slaves.
The problem I see here is that it feels too vanilla, because it isn´t rape or sexual harassment when the girls are brainless sluts who enjoy every second of it.
It would’ve made sense to build up to it and develop them to that point, but this makes the story unbelievable and takes you out of the immersion.
The writing feels boring but it isn´t a big issue for me.

Sex Scenes:
Here´s the next point where this game wasted potential.
The Sex Scenes are okay, but the biggest issue I see here is the lack of animations and the scenes being too vanilla.
I can live with the sometimes weird deformations, because it´s just a game, but the lack of animation makes the scenes look kinda dull.
Like I already said about the Story, the sex scenes all feel too vanilla and they´re not rapey at all, because they enjoy every second of it.
Another thing i´ve seen is the scene with the pizza girl which includes cuckolding.
I can look past it and the dumb storyline of her Boyfriend having that premonition of her being at THAT house.
But why not just make it avoidable or add it in the tags?


Gameplay:
There are choices in the game, but they all don´t seem to matter, making them kinda irrelevant.


Conclusion:
It´s really hard to rate this game. It is entertaining and has a great premise, but it wasted a lot of potential with the lack of production quality and using porn logic, which makes the story kinda silly and takes any kind of emotion out of it.

Great game. Lots of mother + daugther stuff. There are three routes you can take and all of them are distinct and interesting. Choices matter. I can't wait for more updates. My favorite is the submission route but they're all interesting to play, if for no other reason than to see the variation.

4 and a half stars from me.

...pros...
.great renders
.believable story
.proper grammar and english making for an easy read.
.hot women
.quite a few choices for an immersive play through with different paths.

...cons...
.the size of the game is massive.
.only one animation so far
cant think of any more at the moment, overall a very fun game

keep up the great work Dev, damn this game was quite enjoyable, kept playing even after fapping

I thought it was a crime game when it was released, but it is a corruption game.As the plot continues to develop, I am looking forward to this story more and more.
The psychological changes and language changes of each character are well depicted.
Thanks to the author's steady monthly updates, the game gives players something new almost every month, Let me wonder how the heroine and her daughter will change every month.
The characters are my kind of plump type. There are no complex animations, but the graphics themselves are very elaborate. You can appreciate the author's heart and serious about .

This is not a game, but a CTRL holder and an illusion of choice in the game. Fun idea for the game. But why is it impossible, for example, to repulse the bad guys, take a knife, etc., but instead be held hostage by them, fulfill their whims. I do not advise reading dialogues, they are very boring and banal. I spent 2 minutes of my life on this game, squandered everything and the pictures themselves are average here, it seems that the game is being updated but it is getting worse.

Pretty good game, no animations, I would like more choices or maybe a status of the girls to see changes over time. I feel like its less of a game and more of just a visual novel, which is fine but it promises that you can have different paths. I would also like if there is contextual dialogue that it is more explicit as to what path you are on.

version 0.36

graphics are fine, the daughter and others are hot. (i am not into MILFs) the premise is great, it gets going pretty fast, you get what you expect, fugitives break in your home and have fun with you by blackmailing/coercing/forcing the characters to do lewd stuff.

so far the choices have consquences, i dont think this deserves anything less than 5/5. my only problem with it is that the mother is not attractive to me to the point that i would rather just read what is done to her than look at her. but it's still great and surprisingly unique premise. (you would expect more games like this with robbers forcing a family but this is the first I found to have a premise like this)

Good game, deffo better than average, and the branching routes are well done. Like the renders and the sex scenes are pretty hot although it's really what kind of kink one is into. Coercion, manipulation or corruption. The first is hard to do because of the forced factor but the manipulation route is the one I prefer. The corruption route is not bad but I'm guessing it will end in all the girls becoming cum dumps so not really my choice. Lots of gameplay so far and am looking forward to the next updates although this VN would be best played when completed.

Overall I think this is a very good game:

• there's a good amount of content
• the models are well done and varied
• the story has a good setup and pace
• the writing and dialogue are well done

None of the above particularly stand out for me, but I think it's all executed well. The thing that pushes this up to 5 stars is that I really like the mother-daughter dynamic.

There is some NTR that I wasn't crazy about, but that doesn't bother me much. It wouldn't have mattered for me if it was skippable since I'd choose seeing the content over skipping the NTR.

Edit: forgot to add a bit about the fact that it's crazy how far the story diverges depending on some of your choices - it becomes (at least) two completely separate games. That's impressive, but makes me wonder how well the dev can keep that going.

This is not a game. I started it, selected skip unseen text and turned the speed to fast. It took literal minutes of my life, autoscrolling the game on fast to get to a choice and it didn't even matter. Sex just starts with no choice. For a game about choosing to prostitute yourself to save your family, there is almost no choosing. Stuff just happens.

Too little interaction for a game. Too few words for a novel.

It get's 2 stars for being pretty to look at.