VN - Ren'Py - The Shrink R&R [Season 2 v3.4] [OneManVN]

Played the original version before remake, now played the remake. Tons of time for barely any changes, at least nothing significant. Like so often doing a remake (or not doing much...) just seems to be an excuse for being lazy while milking the cash-cow Patreons...

The story isn't exactly original, the whole setup isn't. The quality of renders is decent, the models are unnatural, mostly insanely fat tits and asses.

What's even worse on my part you now have unavoidable trans-sex with the former best friend of the mc and this trans-whatever also is a prostitute. I won't delve into the background-story, because there literally is none.

Can't rate this any higher all in all.

Good graphics and hot models does not make up for the trickle of content, uninspired story, and lack of any real choice. I have supported this game on Steam for some time but this last update is the last time I give a dollar. Not even a gallery!

I've been a loyal fan of this series since its inception. The original game was exceptional and full of promise. However, the pacing and quality of the remake have been underwhelming, leading me to question the author's vision and the game's future. Ultimately, after years of frustration, I've made the difficult decision to discontinue my involvement with the game.

I'm playing the old version since a lot of comments seem to suggest the new version isn't better. My question is if the new game is worse than the old one then it must be bad lol.

First the art is pretty decent to my tastes. I love big boobs and generous curves so this part is great. The story such as it is works well enough I guess. Some mysterious event is causing people to become hyper-sexual. Something needs to happen so it works well enough.

The part that doesn't work for me is the MC. My god what kind of juvenile talks like this? It ruins the scenes when he is talking like some idiot 13 year old. Even if he is under the influence of the virus or whatever it is the dialogue could be way less cringy. It's just the same crap over and over too.
Hopefully it improves over time.

Added to this are some of the scenarios. Shortly into the game I am confronted with two choices regarding Aiko. Panty sniffer route or go over to the couch and whip her shorts down and stick your head into her ass etc. Of course she freaks and starts beating the MC in the dick while he lays there slapping her bare ass. It's a bad scene and borders on retarded. I don't what the panty sniffer route is but I suspect Aiko is some kind of dom/sub route. Only lesbo harems are more irritating than the stupid dom/sub crap to me so I'll wait and see how it plays out before deciding.

I've just started so it's really too early to decide if I'll even continue playing. It's seems like half his family are aggressive bitch types and the other half are sweet so who knows how it will finish.

I guess average fits since the decent models are kind of overshadowed by the dialogue and silly scenarios. 3/5

The ShrinkRnR – A Complete Disaster


Overall Rating: 1/5 – One word: Trainwreck


Story – 1/5


The story is practically non-existent. What little plot there is feels dull, aimless, and utterly uninspired. There's no structure, no build-up, and certainly nothing to keep the player engaged. It's more of a placeholder between forced scenes than anything resembling actual storytelling.


Animations & Renders – 3/5


The visuals are passable at best. Renders and animations are decent in terms of basic quality, but there's a serious lack of variety. One major issue is the lighting – evening and nighttime scenes are so poorly lit that they're often grainy, murky, or outright unreadable. For something labeled a "remaster," this feels like a step backward rather than an improvement.


Characters – 1/5


The characters are painfully flat and unimaginative. They feel like cookie-cutter stereotypes with no depth or personality. What's worse, you have almost no agency in how you interact with them. It’s supposed to be a harem game, yet you can’t skip, refuse, or avoid certain characters or scenes. You’re forced into interactions whether you want them or not – and that kills any sense of immersion or player choice.


Final Thoughts


I haven’t played the original version, just the so-called “remaster.” And if this is the improved edition… yikes. The dialogue is painfully awkward, often boiling down to “Me want fuck, you want fuck?” before abruptly cutting to a scene you can’t skip, deny, or influence in any meaningful way. It’s crude, lazy, and completely devoid of nuance.


In the end, The ShrinkRnR feels like a soulless, thrown-together mess with no respect for storytelling, player agency, or even basic presentation. Even die-hard fans of the genre will likely find this one hard to enjoy.

It is harem game. Rich guy living with tons of girls etc etc.. It have futa characters and have futa on male routes too (Completely optional) and one character have sweet-femdom route. Not bad have a potential for a harem game

Super boring and not really a game since there are only a very few choices which aren't really important.

The evening scenes are too dark to mess with so I just skipped them. To be honest, I was already skipping stuff as it was boring.

The ladies are beautiful, really they are, but they all have pretty much the exact same body so you can lose interest even with that part..

I dunno...I thought it was supposed to be a game but after tons and tons and tons of clicking just to get to a choice... Out of the 3 or 4 choices, it was something like....Take the girl's apple that she's getting ready to eat, or leave the room...... So no real exciting stuff.

So, personally I thought it was pretty bad, but I hope others enjoy it.

Game was fine before the remaster, honestly felt like a downgrade with the sex-scenes and character design. The old version story felt more consistent and straight forward too. The remastered story sometimes leaves me confused as to what happened or not understanding why a characters personality took a 180. Even with the remaster, updates add maybe 5 mins of play time at a time. Not even worth updating and better to just wait 6 months to a year between updating and playing.

Been a fan of this since day 1. Old game was wonderful and had so much potential. The pacing and quality of the remake has made me lose faith in the author and in the game. Sadly, after years of disappointment I have decided to drop it.

First and foremost, the original version of The Shrink I would say was a four stars our better.
The rework has removed choice like for the "Maid" scene from the original.
Cutting corners and out right being Lazy I mean Four years and the first two
I've supported this cash grab, should've known better with Apples of Alison Harem Ending that isn't even done, yeah, the Dev had problems at the time, but far as I know with The Shrink there been no problems.
Stop supporting after fourth or fifth "Rework Update".

Review from content drop 10/12/25

The REWORK shouldn't be designated as a "VN", more so a Kinetic Novel.

The shrink is a tale of two different Concepts of the writer wanting their audience to be invested in their content, The original had dialog options to choose from and in sexual content there was options to finish.

I view the remake as a scheme to keep the story going by retelling or rehashing what was already being told, just in this version there's a select number of options for dialog and no options in sexual content (On how their audience wants to finish them) like before.

I tried my best to stick with this' cause of the time I spent invested in the original. But the rework has squandered any care I have going forward and not caring losing investment.

I'll recommend reading the original and just think happy thoughts when the end of the content comes about.

Just think of it this way George Lucas Star Wars (Original Story of The Shrink) compared to Disney Star Wars (being the Rework).

The Shrink R&R is a visual novel made in renpy made by OneManVN and it follows the same lines of his previous games, a very strange story that doesn’t make much sense followed by a vast array of female characters in rotation to get the attention of the protagonist. In this one the protagonist is the young male of a rich family that is surrounded by a very fit group of relatives with big proportions, especially below the navel. As expected from OnemanVN the story is bare bones, existing as a justification for the many romance scenes you get through this long game. Branching paths are also almost non-existent, serving only to unlock kinks. Most of the story happens around a mansion and the pool, to explain why the girls are constantly wearing bikinis. If you don’t care for the story this can be a good addition because what dev lacks in patience for writing he compensates in sculpting. The models used are very pretty and well rounded, hitting exactly the buttons the developer wanted and all the tags he promised. Sadly the game that is entirely focused on scene hunting doesn’t have a gallery, an always good element for visual novels. From this kind of game and this developer you get what you expect.

Good day to you o/
There are some parts I like but there are way too many cons to continue..
- Some choices don't matter at all (mostly bad code but some are not code related)
- forced trans relationships, you get no choice in that, I understand He is a good friend of the MC but the writer doesn't take the time to at least tell it to me in a way that I could've been on board with it...
- junky models, weird awkward body formations
- Idiotic, random 4th wall breaking...
in the end maybe I find it tiresome to play as some dude that gets hard and pervs on anything and everything in his view.
I actually think the previous version of this game that I played was better.

I have literally never had a ren'py game crash on me before, that was enough to bring this game from boring to just down right disappointing, I'm not saying it's terrible but it clearly needs work, I apologize for the harsh review and I am not sure if this is really all that constructive but I do hope you will improve this game somehow, I do think the content is good if a bit lackluster. Edit: I would like to add that the renders are very nice

I don't understand this game.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I recognize it's a harem game, with an MC that looks like he just finished upholstering all his living room furniture with human flesh. That part I can recognize easily enough.
No, it's the way this game is constructed that baffles me. There are all these moments in the game where I'm expected to click on text on-screen before the story continues.
You see, it's like in other games when there are these things called "Choices", where the plot of the story changes based on what you choose. Except in The Shrink: R&R, the story never changes, regardless of which text you click.
Say you dislike Girl A (forgive me, there's roughly 82 "love interests" in this game, and none of them are memorable enough for me to know their names). Great news! Here's a pseudo-choice on-screen, with one of the lines of text including this message: ("Not Interested").
Phew! I hate Girl A!! I don't want her mucking up my harem!
Except wait, four or five minutes later, the serial killer MC is plowing Girl A! And then he's out on a date with her! WTF, bro! Weren't you listening to me?
Here's the secret that took me about 25 minutes of "SKIP UNSEEN" to figure out -
The Shrink: R&R does not have 'choices' in the traditional sense. Unlike all those other complicated, messy AVNs, with branching storylines and complex relationship dynamics, The Shrink decided to instead have your 'choice' only affect the order in which you hook up with all 79 of the women in the game.
Take the scene where 3 of your roommates are watching TV with the serial killer MC, for example. You're prompted to decide which of the girls you want to... idk, sit next to, or cuddle or whatever. So I pick Girl J, thinking that's the girl the MC is going to put the moves on. Nope! Instead, you'll just have to wait five or six minutes before Girl N and Girl O get their requisite lewd scene. Don't like Girl N or Girl O? Too bad! You don't get to decide which girls the serial killer MC hooks up with, so shut up with your demands for interactivity and choice!
Pointless. Very, very pointless game.

ver 7-11-2023
I don't know if the remake improved the initial version, as I didn't play the old one. That said, the new one is oddly endearing. It's honestly better than it really needs to be. There isn't some in depth story that is plumbing new depths here. Its a game with a rich young MC that is a horndog, but maybe not for the reasons we think. And suddenly everyone around him want to jump on the magic dick, and maybe there is an unexpected reason for that too. Silly plot. But it works here.

The dev has a type. If you think that thicc girls are gross, you might want to stay away. But that said, the girls are all adorable. And curvy and thicc, but in an actually realistic(-ish) sort of way. There is plenty of trans content if you are into that, including the options to top OR bottom one of them. That content is entirely optional though, so don't be scared away if that isn't your thing.

The renders are average-ish but not bad. Animations ... exist but are breaking no new ground here. And there is sound which I promptly turned off. Its technically above average across the board with some lewds. Not tons yet, but I'm thinking that eventually the lewds will be frequent. The game is trending in that direction anyways. At this point there is one or two for most of the girls (not the "landlady", the chef or pizza delivery girl though).

tldr- Not bad! Well worth playing imo.

Not deep, but light and fun vn with great chemistry between MC and his "roommates". It lack buildup and just throws new girls at MC great speed. And there could've easily been couple of hours of gameplay before the official start of the game, dedicated to the development of relationships with "roommates".

The fact that a player can't skip certain scenes, with Brenda, for example, may be called " a minus". At the same time you must chose only one of three "roomies" at a movie party. Weird.

Still the game is great thanks to the humour and girls kinks. It's a solid 4 stars but I am marking it as 5 stars in hope that Aiko will keep having that agressive attitude and maybe some femdomish scenes later on.

The models look not bad, but not super either. The plot was probably written by some schoolchildren: the main character wakes up on his birthday and for some reason his sisters or "neighbors" immediately run naked in front of him and are in no way ashamed to even chase after him when he easily slaps their ass. Without any explanation or prelude, they almost immediately all jump on him and want sex. Against this background, a childhood friend met on the street, who invites herself to a birthday party and for some reason stays in the house without any reason and is also immediately naked - is not even surprising.
Yes, in some places the rapid development of events should be for intrigue, but at the same time there should be some kind of script, as usual in games, and here the events are immediately like in a porn movie. Either too many of the same actions to achieve success with the girls, as in some games, then immediately debauchery without any backstory, as in this case. There should be some balance, it would be more interesting for both sides of the coin.

The initial writing for this game in the early development were lacking and the whole reason to follow the story was that it was getting in some direction. While being goofy and kind of trying to go for some kind of "Sex Zombie due so some genetic modification creating addiction to sex" it got out of hand.

Since Early 2023 there's been a re-writing and while I was mad to restart the whole thing I thought it was much better made and the storyline makes more sense. The scenes are well done, very explicits and there's a little of everything for everybody and I'm into it. I only wish there was a little bit more storyline each update in light of the large amount of storyline/materials that were pre-existing but this is a full redone of the game so it will take some time until we have more than 1-2h of gameplay.
TBC.

I want to love this game so much, but the storytelling needs work.

Starting with the good, The Shrink has many interests that aren't available in many games of its art quality. Interests like D/S where you can be dominant or submissive, trans content where you can be top or bottom, and some S/M. I love it when games explore these, so I want to love The Shrink.

However, the storytelling in this game lacks engagement and immersion. Because you're dropped into the story at the point of, "It's your birthday and a dozen love interests are in their underwear throwing themselves at you from minute zero," it's hard to feel connected to or invested in any of them. I wish we would've had more time to connect with the characters outside of sex or a sexualized setting. This is the foreplay of smut, and foreplay is just as important in smut as it is in real sex.

What's especially sad about The Shrink is that some of the sex scenes actually have some very spicy storytelling. The author has some good dirty talk between characters and spicy narration of what's happening inside the characters that I wanted even more of. However, again, because of that lack of connection with the characters you're having sex with, that spiciness feels depersonalized and diminished.

Overall, I think there's a very hot story in The Shrink, I just wish we hadn't been rushed to the sex, and that maybe there were less characters to focus on.

It's not terrible, but after a reasonably strong start the game takes fucking ages to get anywhere. After the first half hour or so it just develops into repetitive and boring sex scenes combined with a variety of story choices that don't seem to mesh well with what's occurring on screen.