Ren'Py - Three and One: The Cursed Mansion [v0.182] [Man from icecream van]

Started out interesting when it first started. The story was interesting enough. Now the game just feels like a cash grab. I'm not against paywalls as long as they are not overly obtrusive or frequent but interrupting scenes is a huge mood breaker. I can edge myself well enough on my own, thank you very much.

I'm even pretty sure that some of the scenes that used to be included for free with the first bar girl are now paywalled. Graphics do look improved a little. Better AI CGI at least. Otherwise, I couldn't be bothered after a while to get as far as I did in the past versions. Not even sure if the story stays intriguing or not.

Edit: I looked again to try and see if old scenes were paywalled and I can't say that is the case after another quick look. They still feel abrupt before the paywall popup, but I could just be mistaken. Doesn't change that the popups are still not immersion breaking.

Unless your desperate to pay for scenes that, while decent, are not so breathtaking that you can't find anywhere else on this site -- hard pass.

The game itself is pretty decent. An interesting narrative that has great potential. Even the scenes are pretty good. My negatives are the lack of sound which would've completely elevated a mystical genre game like this one, and then obvious one - the paywalled scenes. What is the point of constantly asking the user to pay for extra scenes within every sex scene in the game, honestly just pissed me off.

Playing the games since release, the plot is great and unique not your typical plot, the AI art is consistent and not all over the place like some other games

Pros:
Unique plot
Not rushed
Great consistency on AI art

Cons:
Very small updates
Choice and impact don't show the results right away may require guide in future

This game’s main kink was NTR. Then halfway through dev changed his mind and decided to turn it into a dark harem game. I am sure you can imagine how this kind of 180 degree change can impact to already weak game. Story was forced and generic, and now it makes totally no sense.

Character renders are ok, but backgrounds are terrible. They don’t blend well. Music and sound effects are just there, nothing astonishing.

i find the ai art pretty but seems there is no longer going be NTR/Sharing. we are going get "soft" bad ends whatever that means.

I tried both playthroughs as of 0.141 being nice and being mean or ignoring, doesn't seem to have any outcome on the story so far. so it feels like a kinect novel so far.

the only sex is with the bartender woman currently. wish choices have better impact on future updates. not a fan of the blonde roomate, but love the red head and big titty goth girl.

The story is good so far, but that's all there is to it so far. There's practically no sex scenes at all aside from some groping. The AI images are decent and consistent enough to be immersive, which is good.


Check back in a year or so once there's more content, so far the game is barely out of the intro.

It's a review for the v0.13, I hesitated between 4 or 5 stars since it's so early but I kinda want to encourage the dev.
Visually the game is quite beautiful, and the 3 main girls are very well designed and hot. In that update, the dev corrected some visual consistency issues the game had in its first release, so I think he's improving and that it's going in the right direction.
The concept of the game is interesting, I like the oppressive city and the feeling of being trapped with the hotties.
Not a lot more to say for a now, it's still very early in the game's development.
The game will apparently feature some optional ntr and maybe (fingers crossed) some swinging/sharing too, even if it doesn't seem certain yet.
In any case I'm excited to see how this game will develop.

Big fan of the setting and NTR/sharing, which makes perfect sense in it. I can already imagine multiple ways the author can create opportunities for the MC to earn various benefits or just money using the girls. I hope the MC won't just become a loser who gets NTR'ed all the time.

What I'm not a fan of is the occasional AI art inconsistency that goes over my tolerance level. Like the scene when Tori bends over and Ian talks with the MC. In each new frame, her shorts' length changes drastically. In one, they barely cover her ass, and in the other, it's completely covered.

I also didn't like the writing at the beginning. I especially remember the messages feeling unnatural, but as I played, it either improved or I got used to it.

Leaving aside the occasional inconsistency, the art is quite good, and the story is interesting enough for me to want to play the next update. The score may seem a bit low, but that's my neutral rating for now and how I feel about the game. I don't want to rate based on what I hope the game will be, and I’ll update the score in the future.