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

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.

Started rather well - renders are good, writing is not terrible, idea is "a group of runaway criminals in hiding barge into a house of a mother and a daughter, while husband is away" is simple enough to work. Play *mostly* from the mother POV, but a lot of scenes from criminals and daughter POV. Three pathes - mother fuckes everyone, daughter fucks everyone, both are fucked.

However, minuses:

- this is not a real rape game as genre implies. Girls instantly like it, run-away criminals treat them fairly well, there are no strong emotions involved. It is more of a "BDSM roleplay" feel, than "actual rape" feel. Some might like it as a "kids gloves treatment", some might think it is destroying the whole idea and treats rape like "she loved it anyway". Both criticism are valid.

- there is cuckolding (a pizza delivery girl is snatched and fucked in front of her boyfriend) - it is not evadable, if you are sensible to such things, you might want to skip this part or ignore the game.

Once the 1 part of the game is done and criminals move from the house, it goes downhill.

- A daughter-is-corrupted route turns into "save private daughter"route with, at best, a single scene of her per update and mostly centered around mothers adventures with newly introduced characters. It has nothing to do with the original daughter path and I feel likethe dev wrote himself into a corner with this one - "daughter path" implies, well, daughter content, but basics of the plot and mother's primary POV makes observing daughter semi-impossible.

- A "everyone-fucked" route is pushing kids gloves treatment so far it might break suspension of disbelief. Two teenage girls and a adult woman are sex-trafficted into a criminal city in a desert. There, their captors have very little power and connections, and they are valuable assets. They are not raped, they are not sold into a prostitution ring or used otherwise. Basically, for plot reasons "nothing had changed". They are still locked in a house (a new one) with the same man.

- Can't say much about the mother-only path, as it is barely updated as it is.

But, to be fair, post-house content is still early in development and things might change for the better. Dev is delivering 1 update per 1 path every month.

So far, for version 0.29 I can not give more than 3 stars. Game has good basics and premise, but fails to develop beyond them.

More a novel than a game. But worth it.

I recommend it for those that wants an easy game with straight decisions and hot situations.

The ladies are going to be ravished what ever you do. So if you are looking to save them, this is not your game/novel. Your choices will help to focus on one or another ladies (although this is not so clear when you play) and tune the tone of the story according to your tastes

Said that is a slow cooking novel with an interesting premise that gets you excited more and more while you are playing/ reading it

This game is broken when you choose to rebel. Each scene of every situation play without choices. I had three times the same scenes with different behaviors just after another.
The light is awful, there is some scenes where we don't see shit ( and the worst, it happen when the characters are presented).
If we rebel, Jennifer accept to change the outfit, what the point of rebelling if we finish with the same result. i get it why the daughter accept to change the outfit but not the mom.

A very good game. One of the best porn games I have tried. At first I thought the choices did not matter after experimenting with rollback and getting same scenes. But no, the choices you makes have very long reaching consequences (I guess that's the point of no return hahahahaha). The principal focus of the game is on the gradual corruption and defiling of not one but three women , so if corruption is your kink you will not be disappointed. It also does this without the long drawn out teasing that other games in this genre get into. It is a slow buildup but there is a payoff. No eternal blueballs. And yet the author makes it clear that even once these girls give in they still have so much farther to fall, so the journey of defilement has not reached bottom. I would say that some paths are hotter than others but there are subtle chances to jump between the three. And each has exclusive scenes, not just dialogue changes. Overall greatly satisfied

Easily one of the best games on the site.

The premise is darker than most of the other visual novel type stories being made but it never gets into graphic violence or anything that I feel goes too far.

Obviously this means the story is more of a lust/corruption type and its one of the best if not the best currently being made for that. I was surprised to see the reviews as low as they are but I think that may come from the fact its a darker theme than most other games being developed.

The only negative I've found is too little dialog during the actual sex scenes. It feels like there was more lines of dialog during some oral or just physical touching scenes than there was during the actual sex scenes. For a corruption game there should be more of the villains trying to draw out the feelings of the women but that could be coming in later in the story too.

The premise is interesting, really interesting, but the backflips it has to do to keep it under control and make it a good "marketing" product kind of break the suspension of disbelief in too many ocasions. The interruption thing is happening way to many times from the start, and this character who is supposed to take whatever he wants it happens that he always takes very small pieces, only if he is not interrupted, cause if he is interrupted he just stops. As I said, this backflips i dont know if they work with this type of personality.
And also when the mother is aggresive and dismissing, he is all about big words, but it seems he is all about barking, but never actually bites, so once again, its hard to believe what the writing is trying to make me believe about this guy.
In a flashback he is about to force a girl to blow him after getting kikced in the balls, but after getting out of prison 19 years later he became less sexually driven and more controlled? Really hard to believe

But in the end what trigered me to write this earlier review was actually the posing of the scene between Maya and Stan when Lisa comes. The posing is a 1 out of 10, is horrendous. The guy is contorting his body backwards, his hand is trying to grab the girl breasts, but his hand definetly is not grabbing her, is like a default grabing pose. And the other arm is fully stretched and abrely reaches her crotch. The scene is totally unnatural, he is supposed to be intinidating but he looks like a broken manequin.

And if it continues like this, and this quality is unchanged i think the game is wasted due to the inability fo the creators to make this kind of scenes hot. This scene could be awesome cause is the first and dynamics could be interesting, but it is all poorly done.

This was seriously a game killer. I hope it improves, but if it doesnt, the holes in the writing are not going to sustain the game for me. I cant just shut down my brain or reimagine the scenes how they should be.

And the end result is what i expected, sex scenes are decent but just so so most of them and the others where there is teasing are lacking that extra to make them good.
The mouths opening 2 times the normal, and horsedicks literaly dissapearing inside the girls mouths is a thing.
Deformations making the penetration entrance totally out of place, is also a thing.
The posing when there is groping involved is definetly not natural, male characters are only touching with their hands in a weird way, but you dont see them getting close and seeking contact or smelling the girl, i dont know being a man, dominating the girl and stuff. Those guiys are big and have serious issues reaching girl´s places.
This is due to maybe the girls are too big or maybe with the bones available its hard to make it better, but i have seen it in other games doing it, so its possible.

The writing once again is making backflips, and with a manhunt going on, one delivery girl goes missing and everything is fine.
Someone levea a phone around and it happens to not have password protection? Mine has fingerprint recognition and its from 2015.

The choice based gameplay doesnt change much, it changes some scenes if you decide to make the mother "protective" of her daughter. In some scenes the girl making the scene is changed but the scene is the same, and if the mother doesnt protect the daughter, she takes a more active role (this i saw coming and decided to go with her my first playthrough)

To synthesize:
Guys are supposed to be criminals, but they actually seem good people who bark more than they bite, still They do evil deeds but are ridiculously plot protected. These evil deeds are basically abuse and harass and You expect the girls to be "raped", actually they enjoy almost every second of it, and this lightens the "criminal" element.
Posing is very much average, and sex scenes are vanilla-ish. There are handjob, blowjobs, 69 Lesbian, Boobjob, Thighjob
Grown up 40 year old CRIMINALS PLAYING TRUTH OR DARE? Seriously, step up your game, dudes.

Thats why the 2 stars, and i think im being too lenient.

Now before you get upset just let me explain why I don't like this game. It boils down to Story or lack there of one. If you are looking for a game where the Fem protagonists has an option to be something else than a rape victim then this story is for you cuz you can let your daughter get raped instead!
Wow what a great character! To be honest if that's the plan why have decisions? Why have resist the intruders in the tag line? Why act like it's an option? I swear every fem protagonists game now is filled with shit like this where the give you an option to succumb or resist and you end up getting fucked anyway! Just a little Boring for my taste!

P.S to some of the angry 5 star reviews
You are allowed to not like a game and review it, that is the reason their is one and two star rating options.

This is my first review. This is the best game I've played on this site. The best. The behavior of all characters is very plausible. Here someone put one star and said that criminals would rape women. A rapist is the biggest disgrace among prisoners. There is no respect for them. But thousands women write letters to prisons.
This game is great. The renders are the best I've ever seen. The plot is brilliant and hot. It's impossible not to fall in love with that big guy. Jennifer is put by fate before a real choice. Every little thing in the game is unique. Every physique and face, every clothing and lighting - everything is at the highest professional level.

The story boils down to a family and family acquaintances being molested by criminals... Do you know what's worse? You can't do anything, there's no way to resist or escape attempts... I hated every second reading this, all you can do is watch, the game choices boil down to letting criminals molest your daughter or molest the protagonist in her place. The graphics are good, but the story, plot and characters are bad.

(I don't speak fluent English, so for that reason there may be connotation errors present in the text)

Really great game. Refreshing to find a game that feels original.

Great renders and script. The story and set up is quite unique, very interesting story and the choices make a very big difference.

Highly recommended. Hope the developers continue with this.

I was going to wait a bit longer to review this game, because I believe the plot is about to take a major leap, and I'm very curious to see how it plays out, but I can't ignore the quality in what already exists any longer.

The scenario, which would be so easy to render cliche or unrealistic, is handled extremely well, and the dev has even included several different paths for it to play out along.

The renders, character design, and writing are all top notch, and I'm pretty sure it's just going to get better and better from here.

Cheers to the hardworking dev; I look forward to what comes next!

Really good game. Interesting plot. Good art. Missing some animations to make it even better. Looking forward to see what the autor has in store for us. Honestly I really like the characters and the protagonist. I have a sweet spot for female protagonist games

Need more game like this
I don't understand why it is so rare to find a plot where a strong woman (mother, teacher) sacrifices herself for the protection of a younger one (daughter, teachers)
Does anyone know anything like this?

You have to be a compelling writer to be able to keep me engaged in the plot with two of the hottest characters I ever seen in a game. I'll just get straight to the point. This is one of my favorite games on this site after trying it for the first time. Game was very difficult to get through due to the way the sneaky groping and intensity at every turn causing nonstop fapping mommets. I normally hate blackmail games and I absolutely hate "forced" themes but this is done so well. I still dont like the antagonist or his history with the protagonist but it honestly doesnt matter because of the quality of sexual content. PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK DEV.

I wouldn't actually rate this 5 stars, more accurate would be 4 so still a very good, solid game but going with 5 to balance out some of these unfair reviews. Some people can't notice the different paths in the game and that might be because they can be a little difficult to find (I had trouble with it anyways.)

As far as I'm aware there are 3 different paths (if there are more let me know!) The mother drawing the criminals attention to herself, The mother being stubborn and the daughter drawing the attention or both basically giving in to them. It will be interesting to know how all the paths turn out or if there is (or will be) a "pure" path where both can escape on top but I have my doubts on that.

Rating a game poorly because the kink is not your thing, is so... petty. You are misleading the intended audience. There's tags for every game. Check them before you play.

This game has a very concise story line. Yes, the setup is tropey but less so than other games here. The writing is proficient and the art is excellent.

This is a very competent game, deserving of recognition in a niche that has few games to begin with. If it is your thing, you'll greatly enjoy it.

A pretty good game so far. The story is refreshingly different from the usual corruption story (there isn't a single fake fashion shoot or "stepson" home from college etc.)

The characters are somewhat believable, or at least the creator has made clear efforts to justify why the women involved submit to the abuse and corruption they receive from the men who invade their home. I liked the variety in the men too, especially Haung, who finds the whole thing slightly revolting and doesn't get involved with the girls (yet).

The humiliation scenes are fairly inventive, and the ntr/cheating stuff is handled well too.

I look forward to playing this again once more story has been added.

Man there are some harsh reviews of this VN. It seems certain people are judging The Point of No Return on their expectations instead of the content contained within. This VN is an excellent way to introduce you to tags you may be unsure about like non-con, NTR, and corruption.

I'm iffy on those tags myself as I like games where there are options for the female to come out on top. Whereas in TPNR, it boils down to how much the mother protects the daughter. The circumstances lead to several no win situations. So in that regard I think this game excels.

The corruption is a little fast tracked, but I feel it's fairly justified as the mother does have background that makes her susceptible to it. The daughter... I'm not to sure yet. I imagine there is more backstory for her coming as well.

Either way, its an erotic game that's a bit of slow burn but overall it fits together well. The sex scenes wouldn't be able to reach their peaks without the buildup. I do wish the resistance based options didn't lead to less erotic scenes and instead lead the criminals to do something more devious. But that's just my preference.

I do have to agree that the criminals seem to have the more depth than the female characters. To be honest I appreciated the constant back and forth antagonism, especially between Huang and Chris. It is very clear this is a partnership of convenience and they are not a team that would ever work together otherwise.

In summation, solid foundation in the characters and circumstances, reasonably quick progression to see erotic content with a pervasive sense of corruption throughout, and fulfills the tags listed. I give The Point of No Return 5 stars based on the current version (and to counter some of the undeserved 1 stars).

Started playing this recently and I am loving every bit of it. The storyline and pacing is excellent (so far), but I have always been a huge fan of corruption/blackmail games. The mother and daughter models are definitely above average and I like how the choices really matter in the game, leading to more replayability. The only minor drawback is the game's huge filesize (which is understandable since the game looks gorgeous) and the lack of a gallery to replay scenes (which would be great if this can be added).

Keep up the good work and looking forward to more updates!