Ren'Py - The Tyrant [v0.9.5a] [Saddoggames]

Awesome concept but broken Story.
We have High Love Scenes (Fuck) and right after a Stranger Low Progression scene/conversation can pop.
It will be 5/5 when the story progression will be patched and not a bunch of scenes without coherence in the game progression...
It breaks immersion :/

One of the best NTR VNs Ive played. The relationship, love and corruption triangle is not kind of confusing, it took me a while to figure out how to get the scenes that I wanted but the help section ingame is helpful.

(Before I begin. The game is worth downloading & playing. Make sure you try it and give it a fair chance.)

Okay, the game starts out great, but the story descends into an incoherent mess.

PROS
- The tease & denial around getting into the basement is brilliant.
- The actual basement content is sub-par, but everything leading up to it was well done.
- The best part of this game was wanting to get into the basement due to jealously and curiosity.
- The renders are above average. Mom is attractive.
- The date with mom leads to a hot ntr scene.
- The ntr mom scene at the tanning salon & bar are pretty hot.

CONS
- Once you get into the basement, the story becomes incoherent and not well thought out. You walk around town or the house encountering random sex scenes that don't have a proper buildup and climax.
- After entering the basement, the game is just not as good pre basement.
- Without an in game quest log there is no direction which can leave you feeling lost.
- So much of the game is bad after entering the basement that I couldn't even give it three stars. It's a shame because the game had massive potential to be good, but the poor story hurts it severely.

SUMMARY
- Game needs a basic quest log to guide you.
- After going into the basement, the story becomes terrible and non-existent. He should get a writer to help flesh things out properly.

The game is worth trying and playing, especially pre-basement. The thrill and curiousity of wanting to get into the basement is worth experiencing. After that you'll have a few decent scenes, but mid and late game are very underwhelming. Don't expect any kind of coherent story after you've entered the basement.

Imagine a graph and the excitement is climbing, climbing, then all of a sudden shoots straight down, that's this game.

Well, the best thing about the game is Perspective, how you can Influence others. And change their life with some decision. The game shows 2 opposite site. And I really like that part.

On the other hand:
- Expect Small Sister, the female characters are far from my taste.
- Sex scenes are stupid.
- There is Grinding in game, but it's boring and non challenging, you will use cheat even if you usually like the grinding. I would say less grinding to game, or change it in some way to make it intersting.

I want to start with a short notice, I dont like the story of this game or the ntr genre, but that's not the reason for "just 3 stars".

I Play this game anyway, because it got really great renders. -2 star because of the gameplay, It's pretty exhausting to rerun always lots of same renders to search new scenes. This game could be a way better visual novel than a sanbox game.

For me the it goes like that:
Story 4.5/5
It is original lots of NTR lots of choices and is amazing
Dialogues 4.5/5
Love them make you ... instantly
Renders and Characters 3.5/5
Some models are outdated and not so attractive for me!
The programming and stuff 4/5
Could be more easy to navigate and sometimes take time to get where you want
Overall it is a great game... I love it... I support it
I suggest you play it! (if you like NTR )

[Rev@ v 0.65]
Lots of potential, but needs worked on.

Like the art, character design is good with only a few dips into weird 3d uncanny valley (mostly different facial expressions with mom and younger sister).

A great deal of logic and continuity errors made the narrative difficult for me to follow at times. It's entirely possible to [without using the ingame cheats, console, OR external cheats] to take a particular character's virginity over and over again. The love/corruption/relationship trifecta seems redundant and self defeating, as advancing one stat *sometimes* lowers the other, and other times not. The end-of-day stat change screen isn't explained and makes it seem like the dev is taking points out of stats because fuck you that's why. Because it's possible (and even easy to) advance both sides of a character's arc at once, any character advanced enough for this starts seeming real schizoid real fast. Pacing is very disjointed and jarring; you can work a given character for ingame days and not get anywhere, then happen across a random and poorly-telegraphed plot flag and then the character you worked stampedes from virginal nice girl to total slut (and back again) with 0 transition.

I didn't see much porn that squicked me. I do have quibbles with some content though. From an NTR veteran; that aspect is as disjointed as the main storyline. The NTRing cast can't decide if they are fuckwit doofuses or credible threats and waffle between those settings too much. The pacing for the corruption/seduction is as hosed as everything else. I had the setting turned on because I like tension in narratives, but having it on made it feel like the nice-guy love route made NTR an absolute inevitability while having it off made the plot seem weaksauce and thin.

TLDR: It'll be good once the plot curve gets a few more passes with the belt sander.

this game is absolutely stupid, the story sucks and doesn't even make sense, all the scenes feel very rushed no build at all is literally the mc meet a girl and the next scene they are fucking the renders are not good the only models that look good are the mom and Irina

3.5- Lackluster

Game has a solid skeleton to work with, but missing all the other body parts to make it a full functioning body. Story is meh, hard to believe, difficult to follow. The only fun part is a choice you make between full on corruption or romance (corruption path is way better).

Models are good, H scenes are average and rare, at least they are repeatable. Characters have some some sort of personality, but end up being just that, they just there, existing in their boring shelf.

Game is at the very strange stage, its not a novel, but its not a solid sandbox either. It should just stick to one route and build on that.

Cool graphic and interesting plot. Author, please, don't abandon this game. I like this game and I waiting for continue. Thank you. If you read this of course.

Sorry for my English. It's not my native language.

A great corruption game, with lovely created (female) characters and a lot of options to try out and repeat for several hours. Just a little less need to repeat several events over and over again to get on with the story, would have been great, to give the feeling of a more in harmony storytelling. But this would be complaining at the highest level. So far it seems to be a little more than half finished (0.65) and you can have a lot of fun right now and feel the potential of things to cum ;-)

Goodish game...if you like ntr you'll probably like this game more than me you can turn ntr off at the start of the game if you leave it on you'll need to constantly interact with the girls to keep your relationship high failed to do so and it will start triggering ntr scenes.

WARNING: To those that don't like ntr never look at the CG images or special renders it would only serve to annoy you and the game is pretty straightforward so you don't need to look at them to see if you missed a scene also you don't need a walkthrough the game has one built-in although it's not the best it's better than the PDF one.

Nothing amazing about the story but good dialogues during the scenes and nice renders too.

Also has built-in cheats to manipulate love, corruption and relationship which I guess is essentially the mood seeing how it goes down every night.

Probably to early to give a fair description.

Most of scenes still set for day 1 meaning they dont evolve as relationship evolves so can go from a hardcore scene one hour to next hour getting total cold shoulder. This makes it extremely clunky and grindy at moment. Having said that it is clear this is getting worked on with some of scenes.

For some reason this is another game developer that seems to think women cant be protagonists in NTR so cant avoid it, very annoying when you trying to keep Alexis innocent and a chick walks in your room uninvited and kisses her once and Alexis instantly sluts out and has secret rendezvous regardless of grind you put in building relationship. Just because 2 girls making out is hot doesnt mean its not NTR. (I actually like NTR when playing corrupt path but I hate when you grinding through games playing a romance path one woman at a time and you get still cant keep partner faithful,,,maybe just me though).

Casandras love date is anything but love, its corruption all the way and beyond me why it has love requirement as so anti love not funny. Is very strange when game description pushes love path as way to regaining the girls lost innocence to have such a "love" scene that was 100% carnal pleasure.

Language is poorly done though actual writing ok, I can forgive this as clearly non english speaker.

Love the Models. Writing is allright. Getting around is clunky and realtionships can get grindy. Overall promising game with very sparse updates unfortunately. Great for NTR fans. The multiple story lines are revolutionary of sorts and is in the right direction.

This is one of the best games. a great story that develops at the right speed. Excellent graphics. Maybe add a little video. I put 5 points, because I look forward to the continuation of this game. Fantasy draws a lot of variations of the scenario.

This game is the definition of a groundhog day grind fest.
You are just living the same day over and over, with the same dialog over and over. After grinding it for weeks in game time, you might get a new comment here or there. But its really not worth it. Even with cheats!
It has a few events, but it does not end up saving it at the end.
The story gives the illusion of depth early on, but it really has none.

The story needs more.
The dialogs need more changes. Just reliving the same thing over and over is painful.
The way it "feels" now is that the game takes 6h to play 1h of content.

i played it .... non ntr because i don't like ntr

what did i find ? simply said a very FLAT story wich feels loopy, to many places for those few characters and an extremly high grinding need ... so it is running in circles for a very very low reward

was it worth a try ? nope

the flat story seems to give you options but if you go against your dads plans you progress slow there is no purifying wich the game offers relationships break in no matter what you do etc etc etc .... so if you like being forced to play in a predestined manner go ahead .... i can't recommend it at all

Good
1. Great premise (I love NTR)
2. Really good renders
3. Huge potential

Bad
1. Been more than a year and very little to play, and the fact that the file size is 3.5 gigs makes it all the more irritating
2. Absolute grind fest right now. Same day repeated over and over.
3. Frustrating that the same conversations and moments are repeated even after you complete what should be THE key moments in the game
4. Promising huge potential but hardly any of it achieved so far
5. Very irregular development cycle
6. This latest update really disappointing after waiting for it for so long

might edit my review if the game actualy develops further but from what all has happened so far, highly likely this game will be abandoned soon after all of us fans first abandon it.

Well built story. kinky situations and excellent character and character background. One thing i would like to point out is the drag but its well worth spending time on this game. Its rewarding nature is pure gold. And not a lot of NTR games out, especially good ones like The Tyrant. Its without a doubt one of my favorite. Expecting this game have a great future.