Ren'Py - The Promise [v0.99.41] [Xagrim's Gameforge]

Dude, what a bad game with so many likes.

Version: v0.50b

Review:
I was confused by the rates and the reviews, as they are balanced. Half said the game was bad and the other half said the game was good. I looking at this, so I went to test it. The game has a sandbox mechanism with rng and rpg, where you need to increase your stats, earn points with the characters and reach your objectives. The focus of the game is to corrupt your family, especially your wife, since you need to save the relationship with her. You can also corrupt your daughter and can relate to other women.
The game works well on the issue of corruption, the more you earn points and earn levels, they change their clothes. However the maximum level is 3, and you still can't fuck your daughter (I couldn't).
The game has a lot of grind, making you waste your time, and one thing that irritated me a lot was that when you increased your wife's level for some reason she would get upset and go back to level 1. That's annoying. For you to earn money in this game you will waste hours of your time and things in the store are expensive. In addition to having to keep giving gifts to the characters to then earn points of level progression.
Another thing is also the fact that the RPG is present, you need to bathe (not very necessary), you need to masturbate to decrease the arousal (not very necessary) and need to earn charm and fitness points. Games like this are common but have a high level of grind.
Going back to talking about your home, the game should work better with your daughter, Lisa, it's the only interesting and best thing around. In addition, there are two or three women you can meet and have a small relationship in the game, do all that grinding again and in that you have already lost hours so you end up getting tired and deleting the game.

PROS:
The game works well in its visual of the models of the characters, its renderings are nothing like other games, where a 40 year old woman looks like a 20 year old girl. The corruption system is a little good, what caught my attention was that they change their clothes constantly.

CONS:
There are many things, the first of which is the grinding which is quite. The gameplay is very tiring and makes you waste your time. There are very few scenes and the animations are terrible, that is, in this requirement everything is bad (scenes, animations, etc). The game doesn’t have a walkthrough and it also has no cheats. This is pretty bad, because without a walkthrough you are stuck in the game.

So, why I gave 1 star?
The game is bad to play. Even if it has positive characteristics that portray the reality of the characters, it is not worth playing. For reasons of having grinding and also reasons for not having a walkthrough. The game has a hint system but at a certain point it is flawed. An example of this is shown that X hours you should go to the clothing store with your daughter or wife, but when you complete these tasks this hint / objective still remains shown.
Anyway, I do not recommend, maybe in the future the game will have a transformation that makes it much better, until then it is a bad game that you will waste your time. It doesn't have interesting scenes, the animations are terrible, and there's not much content, just a lot of grinding.

Version reviewed - .49.5a

This game holds a special place in my heart because it is the first porn game I ever played and I have just replayed it for the first time in about 6 months. Looking back, I recognize now that it's not in the top tier of games on here in terms of gameplay and story, but it's solid. The wife is objectively not 'hot' but I wouldn't call her ugly like other reviewers. It is part of the story and I'm excited to see where the story goes. On the flip side, the side characters are all very hot so you do get a variety of looks.

Play this game if:
-You enjoy teasing and slow progression with grinding,. You will have to work for more lewd content. I prefer this approach although it's certainly not for everyone.

-You like bushes. That is my #1 reason for playing this game. Note to Dev - please, if you give the option to trim/shave the wife in the future, please let there be an option to keep the bush as well.



I've given this 4 instead of 5 stars because some of the writing and grammar is just rough. And while I do enjoy the grind, there are many hours of each day where you have to repeat the same content over and over to progress to the next level. Seeing the same text and scenes 20 different times does start to wear thin, although the payoff is usually good in the end.

i would give this game 5 stars, because it is a dirty game with an option to corrupt your ugly bushy wife and ugly adopted daughter. the story is nice and its always nice to work hard enough for family gather money and corrupt them enough to make them do whatever you want.

all the other models in other games aside and the ugly bushy filthy wife in this game what makes it unique i guess.

I grew attached to this game lately [v0.48.5a]. Love the story setting and that you have to slowly get reaquainted with your wife, bring her back to previous beauty and kinkiness and find some lewd action along left and right. I'm also happy to see The Promise featuring naturally grown pubic hair for a change. Tired of bald chicks all the time. Furthermore you can choose whether you want to engage in sharing fantasies or not. Last but not least I'm curious where the plot is headed and when the resistance shows up.

Ireally like this game dunno why so many people complain about the grind , it's not that hard to get where you want, plus the animations are amazing, are more .the only downside not really updates for the char i like (lisa) but all in all its a nice game

Pros:

1- I tried really hard to find it, and found none.

Cons:

1- Renders, especially the characters look absolutely awful, which is a feat by itself, since even stock DAZ models usually look decent.
2- The grind present here is on a level of its own, which actually mildly impressed me.
3- Suffers from typical "Sandbox" Syndrome.
4- The sex scenes are absolutely horrifying to look at.
5- Buggy

I had my eye on this for a while, but kept putting it off for a few reasons:
1) The characters look hideous,
2) The game is incredibly grindy,
3) Every hour the character has to decide what to do, but most hours there is nothing noteworthy to do.

I decided that with this being version 0.4e I would finally take the time to give it a chance. After grinding for about an hour I finally got to a sex scene with the wife...
... which was less pleasant than anything I have ever seen ...
... and now I'm going to go scrub my eyes and brain with bleach.

The characters look bad enough with their clothes on, but are downright horrifying during sex.

Two stars because this is partially my own fault for playing a game with an "artistic" style that I found so unpleasant. If you enjoy the images presented in the rest of the game, keep going. If you do not, stop playing before it scars you.

My Rating of this Game (v0.45e ) is:

Pros:
+ Fantastic Renders
+ Easy Playing
+ Active Play
+ Nice Closeups
+Normal Looking Women
+ Great Hint System
+Great Milf

Cons:
- Grinding Game Play
-Repeating Scenes

Conclusion:
The Ladies look great.
They look like your everyday ladies walking around the Place,and no, I travel alot so there are not all models walking around.
Also like the hairy bush of the wife,makes it look natural,not everybody is walking around with a shaved pussy.
What could be better is the wife getting into the action,and I love the scene with Helen in the kitchen,with just the pussy rubbing,that was hot as hell,so near,but so far.
Plus a great Plus of the Game is the Regular updates of the Game.Great work from the Dev here.

One of the Top Games in my Book.

Damn worth the Download.......

If you can put aside the horrible grind (you repeat the same things all day every day for little to no content),the story not progressing maybe you'll like this game cause i sure dont (not in this state that it is right now).it had promise at first with different kinks but it doesnt seem that the mc is gonna get anywhere soon in this game.

Simply boring. So much repetitiveness with very little anything. 30 minutes of boring is all I can take then I just have to leave it alone. For an example of how much of repetitiveness just read the next several lines.

Get up, Help with Breakfast. Checkout daughter. Help clean dishes. Go to work. Go jog. Take bath and maybe masturbate. Maybe help clean. Maybe massage wife. Maybe fuck ugly wife's overgrown bush. (prefer to just sleep.)

Now repeat that fourty times.

Okay, tried it again and it still is boring.
Also, it is not inviting to play at all. At the very start of the game, when going to your sleeping room, there is only 1 comment from your wife "Leave now" ... wtf?? No nothing on what to do or whatever. I do like a bit of searching in games on what to do or how to progress ... but this is just ridiculous.

v.0.15
Pros: good idea, original story, realistic looking characters - one of the most realistic (and good looking) looking milf/gilf ever! (there are many other games where you can not visually see difference between mothers and daughters)
Cons: boring and tedious way of making money, sex scene without evident end (only one sex scene so far, which can not be repeated - hope is it only a bug?!), so far short storyline
Overall: very promising game with a great potential, looking forward for updates!

This Dev is one of the hardest workers i've seen on this site!
& now it's starting to show in the latest updates If you consider They've changed the format of the game also they have give this a makeover. I like the way you need to get back into your Wife & Step daughters Good graces, Yes it's got a grind system, But saying that There are far worse one's out there! the Animations are great, All in all This is getting Better with Every Update!

Review for V.0.5.
Good points:
1. The premise is not original, but is good: a guy that need to re-seduce his wife to save his marriage and, at the same time, get some kinky action with her and other people.
2. Some of the 3D models are great. THERE ARE DIFFERENT AGES AND BODY TYPES FOR THE CHARACTERS!!!! Not all the characters look like 20 y.o. skinny top-models or siliconed pornstars!!! Some of the bodies are realistic!!! There is even a female character that looks about 60 y.o. and still is really hot. Realistic GILFs in a game!!!

Bad points:
1. The game is in a really early stage of the development. There are only a few things to do.
2. The grinding. I don't understand why devs think that people like to spend hours repeating exactly the same tasks in order of getting a point of experience, seduction, kinkyness or whatever. GROUNDHOG DAY is great as a movie, but terrible to live inside. And that's how it feels playing this game.
3. Very scarce text, descriptions and dialogues, specially during sex scenes or events. When you at last manage to have sex with your wife, you just see a short animation, and that's all. That makes extremely boring those scenes. A good writing is at least 75% of the game. Maybe the problem is the dev doesn´t have a high level of english.
4. Several lame scenes to see tits just because. The ones in the swimming pool, for example. It would be way better if the erotic scenes happen for a reason.
5. Animations are not good. I prefer every day of the week a few good renders for a scene and good text than a bad animation... or even a good one. Animations need to be top quality to pay off.
6. BUGS, BUGS, BUGS EVERYWHERE!

As I have already said, the game is in a really early development stage, so all those flaws can be fixed in the next updates. I really hope that in a while I'll have a reason to revise this rating and give the game a better review.