Ren'Py - Abandoned - Time for You [v0.26.0] [Zero2HeroGames]

Playing this is pain in the ass.

The interface has buttons with almost no contrast between text and background. Among gameplay buttons in the phone there are many intruding buttons of various sites, like instagram etc.

Too many words all the time. Tutorial scenes happen like for hours after the start of the game; the girl leading tutorials has idiotic grin and blabbers a lot. The screen shakes vertically (vpunch) like every minute.

The story has no sane or veritable detail: dancing thief, mystical disappearance, mystical memory loss, mystical resentment, mystical storing stuff in MC's room, mystical lies from everyone.

The mini-game "find the clues" has no reasonable connection to what's going on.

It's all so nagging I didn't even get to start to discover actual scenario, but was bored already. The game feels like a large heap of trash where you don't find anything interesting even after hours of searching.

[v0.14]

Well written and looking to be one of the best for the genre. Compressed version has more compression loss than usual. MC is sometimes too much of a pussy but not so much during important scenes and not that bad compared to other stuff.

Very, very good game.
This game doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it combines the best aspects of other popular games and adds it's own value to it.

Main positive points are:
- Great story that looks very pomising with lots of potential
- Awesome character that really differ from the plenty of generic ones you see in other games. Escpecially the relationship between the MC and the girls develops very naturally and is way less porn-like than other gimes, which I personally like a lot
- Nice quality of life features like the game telling you when you are about to step over a threshhold that will prevent you from finding collectables in the area, so you can take another look around

Negatives:
- Animations are okay, but nothing more. Not the worst I've seen but can't really hold with the quality of the other factors of the game.

Still I feel like this game deserves 5 Stars. It's not a giantic gamchanger but its just so good it stands atop many others

One of the best games, if not the best on this site.
It's different and refreshing.
Interesting mystery-filled story,
lovely likeable characters, good writing,
amazing renders. Sound during NSFW scenes.
10/10. Bursting with potential.

Deserves a way better average rating than it has.
Gotten knocked down by people who just want a by the mill visual novel with no real gameplay.

Hope to see the story deliver on a great setup.

---- edit ---- keeping old review for transparency and perspective ---

So the day has come, the day I have to reduce my rating of this game.

As I said, I hoped to see the story deliver on a great setup, it didn't.
For each chapter the game gets more convoluted .

Want to hear every characters thoughts all the time? Even the mondane boring ones? Want to see the story from every characters perspective? Want constant new "mysteries" with the faintest red thread you have ever seen, with few and poor answers. Great, this game is for you.

I assume the developer has a plan to tie it all together, Ill give them the benefit of the doubt with that. However, currently the story is very messy. it's also very dragged out. I think most development time must have been spent just writing characters thoughts, that could have easily been left up to interpretation based on dialogue. That's just poor writing.

It's unfortunate because the setup was great. It tried to do something new. The writing has moments of real heart, where the characters feel like real people, but it drowns in between all the unnecessary monologue.

Additionally, it feels so out of place to have cozy romantic moments between two characters, then jump back to the mystery investigation with someone else. The pacing just feels way off.

The renders and characters designs are still great, and sfx during sex scene is a huge bonus. I hope the game can redeem itself, but I don't think ill be playing future updates, I can't click through another monologue.

Excellent quality game, I would say that although pure visual novels aren't really my thing, this game does it very well. The detective elements are fun and interesting, although some portions of it took some getting used to, thankfully you can always scroll back if you mess up. The art is very high quality, and aside from some uncanny valley moments I felt like the majority of it was well done. If you like visual novels this one is for you, but don't expect a ton of content as it still is low on the version count.

This was a review of version 0.14.0

Really fun! Cannot wait for more content! Loved the characters, the mystery, and the puzzle-solving. 18+ scenes are HOT. Probably not for everyone (story/puzzles vs "easy" nsfw scenes), but really worth checking out.

There's a lot in this game its very ambitious. It's fresh and pushes the boundaries sometimes it goes too far with the bells and whistles but I like it. It's interesting the story is good and the renders are excellent. Looking foward to more updates

Very enjoyable game, beautiful renders, beautiful characters and I absolutely love the theme.

The whole story gives off some mystery vibe, which rarely is the case in most adult games. That's really what lured me in, besides the women of course.

Selena and the Mom are my top girls so far. But Akane is a babe herself and I hope this sticks around.

The only people complaining about the mini games are people who'd rather just skip every scene and go directly to the sex scenes. It's the same with sandbox type, people just want the sex to come in an instant, granted their are some crappy sandbox games but that's usually the case. I love the mini game but I'd understand I'd the Dev makes a skip option to satisfy some detractors.

But love what I'm seeing and hope this Dev sticks around.

Well, this looks really promising.
The story seems pretty deep, and i enjoy the Phoenix Wright-like gameplay. Characters are well-made, just Vanessa doesn't fit my tastes, but it's only me.
Keep up with the great work !

great story. Amazing renders. Have the Steam version, and will be buying the game. The minigames of searching are usually not too hard, but can become tedious as they would in any game. Perhaps an opportunity to turn them off on second or more playthroughs??
Otherwise just a great game so far. Keep up your good work!

Unskipable mini game ruin the fun. The dev has this idea of making a combination of detective style game and porn game. However it's just tedious. The renders look very good though... a shame. Would serve better as a VN.

Absolute catastrophe. I do not understand how you can mix puzzles and various mini-games to adult game medium. Mini-games are already considered a chore and quite risky to make in normal game medium so how do you think it will fare out in a specific genre where the main goal is to deliver porn and smut to the consumer? People here don't have time for that shit. People want to have relax, read a good story and fap. Adding mini-games defeats the entire purpose of Adult VNs. I do not want to work my brain while I am holding my stick.

Puzzle game and no way to skip it. Graphic are nice but gameplay is really bad and tedious puzzle in porn game without a way to skip them is just dumb, did not even try to pass the second puzzle got to annoyed by it .

I'm not a huge fan of the point-and-click puzzles, but the story built around the puzzles so far is pretty intriguing. Considering we're still in Chapter 2, I'm sure there's still a long way to go in character development and revealing the things we don't know about our MC and the LIs around him so I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Also, ELVO is my spirit animal. We all need more ELVO in our lives, I know I do.

Edit: I never did get around to finishing this, and from the looks of it neither did the developer. I gotta stop rating content that isn't complete...

Good Points
+Renders looks decent enough. Girls/Women looks hot.
+Story seems interesting.

Bad Points
-Gameplay mechanics are annoying.
-Renders and animations needs some work.
-We have pretty little sexsual content. We need more sexsual content ASAP.
-Sex scenes need lots of work. More positions, angles, animations and images etc... For example when girl jump MC's dick we dont see anyting about that not even one image. One image ago she is far MC and one image after she have dick inside. Is it some kind of magic? This scene for examle need at least 2-3 different image. And sex scene is generaly disappointed either. Just one angle, bad looking position etc...
-Characters talk to much! Not like we have nececary lots of line and story even with unnecary situtations or scenes they are just talking and talking...
-We dont have walkthrough and it could be good. Not imposible to play but not easy to play aswell.

For The End
This game is realy waste lots of potencial here... With more work it could be at least 4-5 star rate game but right now its just poor. I'm not happy giving this game 2 star but DEV... Bro... You need work lot. This could be one of top adult games but you need work. Just fix bad things i write you and you are good to go. I hope you will. I wish you luck.

I seriously think this game is 5 stars if not for the damm minigames, hateful sandbox and puzzles, including the whole go hunting for objects in the game.
Some may find that fun but I find that tedious and is what makes me hate this game a bit, I prefer to play and enjoy the game without the hassle to be looking for things I may miss or such... If all that was skippable it will be far better.
Also, I have to point out you can easily miss things (like I did in the office and I'm sure I did hunt every pixel...)
Said that, this game has crazy good quality in renders and animations, the writing is good and the story is kinda interesting.
I recommend this game 100% if you dont mind the whole thing I said up there about the game but if you hate minigames and puzless, hate hunting for pixels/objects this game may get on your nerves.

In an attempt to be realistic the game is loaded down with so many backwards scenarios that it ceases to be intuitive. Add in the intrusive tutorials and fourth wall breaks and it's nearly impossible to immerse yourself.

I had hoped for way more playing this game considering how much effort was put into the developers site and such, but I was very disappointed.

The game feels like a mess all things considered, with how much filler information that is present in every single dialogue it gets extremely tiring to read through it all, not to speak on the overly explanatory tutorials that is given to the player.

Overall the renders are good and the story quite unique, but considering the foundations that the game is built upon at the moment, I don't see a future as of right now for this game.

Have only completed chapter 1 thus far but am compelled to leave a review. Best damn porn game that still feels like a game and porn at the same time. All too often the balance that is in this type of game falls away and you end up with a game with a few instances of porn or a porn with barely any gameplay at all. The balance established by this game is what sets it apart, now factor in the great renders and characters (have only encountered two as of chapter 1) and you have a solid experience that is fun to play and is certainly fappable.

First game that has me posting a review btw, looking forward to see how this game develops!

Nice looking renders and interesting story. There are way too many tutorials and text for one instance. It just bogs down the whole thing. I had major hopes for this game. I'll check back , hopefully things change for the better. Good luck.