Ren'Py - Uni [v0.57.120b] [Hizor Games]

Good start, but as with 90% of games on here, desperately unfinished.

There's a solid core, but a lot that can be added or improved.

Branching paths would be nice. As it is, it feels like you have to pick the very specific responses the game expects or get locked out of basically every route.

Additionally, the game has no business having a corruption mechanic. The only thing it does is restrict which outfits you can wear, but there are only 3 that have a corruption requirement. And Wearing them has no gameplay impact.
Simply put the corruption just shouldn't be in the game. It has no bearing on what choices are available in dialogue, because it can't since, as I stated above, making the "wrong" (usually non-lewd) choice in a dialogue can lock you out of a particular path, or simply Game Over you.
Corruption mechanics are best used in 2 types of games. 1. Ones who's scenes are basically endlessly replayable (i.e. Girl Life) but which options are available is dependent on your corruption. This allows the game to gradually open up additional options as you become more corrupted. OR 2. Shorter, more branching games, which are designed to be replayed (i.e. Good Girl Gone Bad). This allows the player to experience scenes unique to each playthrough based on what their corruption is at that time.
Uni (also, what's up with the name? the game clearly states she's still in High School), fits into neither category.

I will say the game has very nice art, and the scenes and themes in the game definitely appeal to my interests. However, I really only partially recommend the game in its current state. Download it, play it for an hour or two and forget about it until when (if) it becomes more complete.

I'll keep an eye on it and if it improves will adjust my rating.

Edit: Lost a star for disappointing updates. I haven't played the game since I left this review until today.


Updates since then are disappointing to say the least. Creator should really focus on completing paths first and updating art second.

It seems only a couple events have been added to a couple paths. Most of these events contain no art assets at all. Just text. And the text is just a couple sentences each.

It should not take that long to do this. I would actually applaud if the developer was banging out text events and adding the art in later. The biggest issue with most games is they are never finished. However that is clearly not what they're doing. I honestly don't know what they've been doing, the amount of additional content in the past 7+ months is pathetic given its mostly just text.

Pretty good base. I love the scenes with Kate that they added in the last update. I would give 5 stars for that content and 1-2 stars for everything else, averaging to about 3 stars.

The bad: The dream scenes are way too long, and IMO are a waste of development time. I would think otherwise if the player could make choices whether to go along with the dreams and if they had a few corresponding CG's. This might make them feel more engaging. I also think the MC's naked portrait art could be reworked. She looks great in clothes, but those naked boobs are... Yikes. Also, not many of the scenes have corresponding illustrations.

The good: Fantastic CG's! When this game gets it right, boy does it really get it right. It's in a great direction with Kate's corruption route and the black-haired girl's submission route. (I just wish they focused on only one route for her. Two routes seems like a waste of development time.) But this game feels like one of the few that can really scratch that lesbian-tag itch for me. The way the friendship is corrupted between the girls, yet retains cuteness and caring, is just great.

If more illustrations are added, the MC can be redesigned to look cuter without clothes, and the devs follow up with more updates like this last one (sans the empty dream sequences), I would change this rating to five stars in a heartbeat.

This is that kind of anime graphic game for me which is not too japanese to play and enjoy. So graphical appearence nice but not too cartoonish which kills pleasure for me. Game story is simple but thats ok because writing and character interactions makes the game alive. You can customize clothes of the main character. Sandbox part of the game working you can feel free roam.

Fun and interesting story line. The art is wonderful, there's no CG scene but there are standing images. There is high replay value for the multiple route and allow for every play through to be a little different. So far there are a good amount of content, although no ending yet.

Amazing writing, cute and loveable characters, regular updates (content every month and and infos inbetween) + realistic goals make this a really enjoyable and worthwhile game. Love to support it to see it developing further. Furthermore the art is really nice and there will be multiple routes with different fetishes to satisfy a variety of people.

This game has so much potential and good story lines but there are only a couple of scenes that have actual images, the rest is just staring at a black screen with some dialogue at the bottom. Why even bother to progress the story when a big part of the game is missing?

Edit: Months later and still most of the H-scenes are just text with a static image that doesnt show anything. The scenes that have more content are good quality though.

This game has lots of potential. Love the 2CG art, and the text it's very well written, to the point that I actually bother to read all dialogs. The plot has lots of branches and I bet lot more will come. I will will let this one cook for a little while, maybe a couple of months, and play the newest realese at that point. I'm anxious to check the future releases and see how the plot have evolve. Definitely a game worth playing, not only for the CG, but for the actual writing. Congrats Dev.

Wow, after a full two years, I'm back. Many of the issues in my original review have been addressed and I really was shocked by how much better this game feels. That said, the game still has a long way to go.

The most major development is that the game actually has a ton of art. And a lot of it is really good. It's absolutely amazing how much better the art makes the game.

The events are fleshed out a lot more and there's significantly more content. There's a sense of continuity: dating two people and they find out about each other. The game just feels so much more lifelike.

Some of the complaints I had from before seem to still hold up but I really am impressed. I truly enjoyed the game 2 years ago but it felt average and had a long way to go, but now I honestly can see this game getting very popular and it would be well deserved. I can't wait to see what comes of this game in the future.

Changed rating from 3 to 4 stars. It's getting to 5 stars but still is a little ways off.
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This game has so much potential but it still feels very messy right now. I will start off with the bad and not so great things then finish off with the stuff I really enjoy.

-The game kind of feels barebones at times. There is a serious lack of renders/scenes and I'm sure the will be fixed over time but it is frustrating for the writing to completely show a different picture than what is being shown.
-The events and school days repeat very often, which is frustrating because if you roll a bad day at work you make way less money and it can happen again and again.
-It seems that many events spawn from just RNG. So you potentially have to wait way longer for an event to fire than it should. Sometimes someone asks you out at the same time as another person so it cancels an event. The event may fire the next week but I'm not entirely positive.
-The outfits and room decor seem to be simply cosmetic right now. No one mentions it from what I have noticed.
-There are a lot of just characters added for no reason. Your best friend at the start of the game has that one conversation with you on the phone and then never is mentioned again; why even bother?
-There are girls that ask you for the homework and it seems like the choice has zero impact besides making them annoyed. There are a lot of events like this that seem to really offer anything. No interactable characters or any benefits. You can't ask the girls for homework help if you forget to do it a day or something.
-Some days you literally have nothing you can do to pass time besides walk around the city and spawn the same events; some even cost money and don't offer any added benefit (singing, lotto ticket, etc).
-There are a lot of currently meaningless choices. Some meals you can choose and they cost 2x even 3x more than the cheapest meal but they don't offer and benefits. So why bother spending the money?
-The relationships feel very short right now. Like 2 - 3 events and then the content is over for that girl.

Lots of the things I list will probably be changed over time, but they still make the game feel way worse than what the game should be. I find there are lots of positives but it is hard to think of them when there are so many things that detract from the game. Some of the positives are:

-The MC is pretty interesting, it is sad what happened to her and she seems very strong.
-The people you meet for the most part are cool and cute.
-There seems to be a lot of characters, although most of them don't really serve much a purpose yet.
-It is nice to be able to have school, a school club, and work. It is a lot of events that gives you a bit of a varied feel. These all open up new pathways which allows for some replayability.

The game really has a ton of potential but I believe it needs a real lot of work to make the entire game feel adequate. I think the game really shines at times and really suffers at other times. I really appreciate this game but I wanted to be as honest and transparent with the review in hope I to see the game improve in the future and I can't wait to change my review when some of these issues are ironed out!

Extraordinary game! I didn't enjoy a game that much in months
The game let you chose your story and fetishes and give you a good amount of option.

The game is not grinding at all, you would to work just for the mission with money you only buy clothes or a new style for your bedroom

The art style is lovely and the MC is very likeable .

if v0.16.65 it's like this i can't wait for the final project <3

The game isn't bad. Actually, it's a relatively solid experience if underdeveloped at certain points as a WiP game, with good writing, actual spellchecking, etc etc. However, there's a lot of details that wear what is in all respects a good, solid lewd game down, which are also unfortunately things that are by the inherent game design and probably won't be changed.

The first and most important thing is the set up; it's a sandbox affair, you run around the place and trigger events as opposed to a more structured, novel sort of story. Which isn't a problem by itself, but everytime you do an action you're basically waiting for a dice roll to make something happen, be it a meaningless fluff event or progression in a route/event chain or whatever have you. A signifigant portion of your time is going to be clicking your bedroom door, outside, school, work, a walk, your home then bed all to the tune of nothing actually really happening outside of generic repeats. This is especially eregious if you decide to savescum a little to make a different choice and end up not getting that event to fire, or if you're already in it something that happened after to fire. Ideally, something should always be happening everytime to click on it until content is exhausted, and anything else is just showing the dev cares little for your time.

With that in mind, there's also bizarrely some cases of choices and exclusive content. The two examples are your work and your school club; you can only choose one of either, for some reason, meaning you are then locked out of the other two or three choices for the rest of the play through in some bizarre attempt to force replayability in a title that just doesn't have any, not like that.

One last issue is the dreams. The PC is apparently pretty horny and has some rather active, immersive dreams! That's fine. The problem is that the scenarios of these dreams are all universally far more interesting then what actually happens in "reality." Where's the VN where I'm a magical girl seducing my evil Nemesis and sucking her cock dry to defeat her? Heck, even when the PC has wet dreams over her friends and romantic partners it's all dramatically more interesting.

Still, it's a game with good writing, cute art when it shows up and is all around a good experience, if occasionally barren. It does, however, update extremely slowly for what it is - a lack of CGs is one thing and art is understandable, but not having a near constant deluge of content for what amounts to light reading is a little strange. It's not like it's a heavy text-prose game, it's a VN.

This game was a blast to play. At its core, this game is about a girl who either is aggressive and dominant or shy and eagerly submissive. You play as her, making such choices to be dom or sub as she gets a job, goes to school, and makes friends. Its day-to-day routines are not too grindy, but add enough breather between events to build anticipation and not kill mood. One minor thing I hope is changed is the MC's house because the living room serves no purpose as far as I could tell other than to connect the bedroom to the rest of the world. I suggest making her home in the vein of a single room apartment if nothing will be implemented there. So far, the game has a solid foundation for the rest that appears to be planned and is definitely worth a playthrough.

This game has amazing art tons of different paths and ways to play the characters are engaging especially violet who is my favorite character. The dialogue and writing is amazing and perfectly written the art is well draw and very entertaining definitely give it a play and support the developer if you can and share with friends

Hello my name is Siderophilia and I have played Uni v0.1462d by Hizorgames.

As this is far from a finished product there is a lot of art still missing and story routes still unfinished which I won't load the developers for in this report. Still if you're looking for a full game you should know that Uni is nowhere near that state yet. However if you are curious about a project in development it has come far enough to offer a good idea about what the final product is going to be like.

Uni is, in difference to what the name may imply, a dating sim style game about a cute redhead who goes to high school. Now, when I say "dating sim style" I mean it contains some basic tropes of the genre, but it doesn't go all out and instead opts for developing stories and relationships with series of scripted events more akin to a visual novel, which is a nice change of pace. Not only that, but the events in some series of events will often be referenced and can sometimes even trigger new scenes in other routes. This is one of Uni's main strengths and makes it feel organic in a way that is sorely lacking from many similar games. For instance if you want to see NTR the game isn't just going to serve you the option, but you yourself are responsible for setting up the necessary relationships.

However this also has some drawbacks, as it increases complexity and interesting exchanges may sometimes appear "hidden" behind combinations of choices you wouldn't think to try, and I think as more content is added this problem might worsen. As Uni also includes a wide set of different fetishes, you sometimes find yourself plunged into routes that don't really interest you, even if it is often clear how to avoid them. I think the developer could do a few things to increase clarity, such as highlighting important story decisions and H scenes when choices appear to distinguish them from more mundane dialogue options.

The characters at some points feel inconsistent, not least the MC. A lot of the time this happens following some story choice in a manner like:
> MC: The way he was acting was making me really uncomfortable.
> Player Choice
> MC: I mean I was getting really turned on.
I'm not entirely sure to what degree this is the result of actual sloppy writing and what is actually the consequence of most of the writing not being fully fleshed out yet, but I still feel like a lot of routes portray the characters with a very particular mindset until a player choice changes them completely, when what they should do is display some degree of curiosity/uncertainty about the options before the player decides. The sub Violet route is another example of this. While it's probably one of my favorite things in the game at the time even if you stood up to Violet at every opportunity before that it comes like an out of the blue change of character.

I'm also not too fond of how most of the male characters are written. They're pretty much all jerks with the exception of Damien, who is instead a huge nerd. (I suppose only having these options to choose from makes the game more realistic but I don't play games to relive the dreariness of real life.) The way the MC's motivation often is expressed as either being afraid or worn down rather than any real lust is a pretty big turn-off for me. It took me right up until the end to realise that the bakery route was the so-called "bimbofication" seen in the tags, for the longest time I thought the boss was just an abusive asshole. But I suppose there are people out there who might enjoy these kinds of interactions.

The single worst thing the devs managed to put in this game however is the "kitten route". While it starts good and offers some nice emotional characterization of the MC, the final choice is just so bad. You get the option of giving the kitten away to a nice woman or to "Change your mind". I thought the latter option would show that my character has grown attached to the cat and wants to keep it, but no, picking that alternative results in you putting the poor cat back on the streets where you first found it starving and abused! What the actual fuck!?

In all I enjoyed what I have seen of Uni so far and I hope to return to it sometime in the distant future to find that characters have become more fleshed out and the relationship developments over the course of the game have become more consistent and less rushed. As of now it's a 4/5

This game is an example where good writing is worth more than all Honey Select models put together. The build up is slow and there's not much content currently, but its juicy and well worth the wait. Dominant / submissive relationships are very well written.

The game starts up with an unexpected twist, which leaves the PC open for whichever path you might want to choose for her - being one of virtue or one of corruption. The game offers the player with a couple of options for passing their days - you can work at one of (at the moment of writing) two locations, and spend your free time exploring the city streets, with the possibility of countless of events, interactions and unexpected side adventures! Furthermore there seems to be several options in regards to how you want the PC's love life to turn out - be it dominating a spoiled rich girl or spending your free time with that sweet boy you helped in school, the choice is yours! Although a bit more freedom in regards to formerly mentioned street exploration would be nice, the game doesn't leave one longing for action and (for the most part) follows up on said action with gorgeous animations. Loved it. 5/5 stars from here.

This game has gone from a bundle of borrowed assets combined with an avatar and some story to something that is showing some serious promise.

Hopefully the dev keeps up the good work and can keep adding art assets since he has some decent patreon support now. Looking forward to it.

One of the games that have great potential i think. I like the games where we have total control over MC and the MC in this game is interesting and cute so im looking up to it. At the moment the content in game lacks but still it s enjoyable and you can still have fun while you were playing it. There are different tags used in game so it ll be a big plus if one of them is your thing. We should support and say good luck to the dev ^^

This game is not that good in its current state, maybe later on (way later on) this game will have enough content to be good. Initially, when I started playing this game I expected a lot more content for 0.12 but it didn't have that. A lot of the sex scenes were just text-based and some did have images so it's inconsistent. I also worked in the bakery when the girl suggested you go shopping to buy clothes and you spend around 500 yet the clothes you purchase are not even visible to you. When she tells you to go blond and you accept your hair is still red. There is honestly a lack of images in this game. Also, every time you walk around or at least in my case its either a guy telling you to buy a lottery ticket or there is nothing to do. I haven't had a good experience playing this game but I do see it becoming better with more updates (hopefully). Plus some form of in-game tracker would be nice to see if you have unlocked all the content or an in-game gallery to see if you have missed anything because I felt like I was wandering around without a goal.

Cute game which has content for a lot of different fetishes. I myself really appreciate seeing a game where you can be the submissive in a yuri femdom relationship. It's kind of a niche thing that I don't see very often but really enjoy.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.10.50b...

Not a half bad grinder with some story elements...

The visuals are 2D hand drawn in a Japanese Anime style... Most visuals are stills with not a huge amount of variation, as this VN/Game plays a bit like your typical Japanese style Visual Novel with characters showing on the screen as they speak or during some interactions... The backgrounds are a mix of unique ones and a few I felt like I'ld seen before, but not sure... Very few scene and/or event visuals... The basic UI elements and map navigation is alright for what your currently able to do...

The script is pretty spot on, as I rarely ran into any spelling/grammar errors... The introduction to the story is rather short and simple, and does feel a bit unoriginal, but it gives you a basic setup... The plot (what little there really is) revolves around a female protagonist who's parents died and she ended up skipping her senior year of high school... She moves to a different city and tries to start her life over again, and also to finish her last year of high school...

After the introduction you get into the grinding aspect... Where you may decide how you want to play... This VN/Games is slightly flexible on how you can play it, beginning with either a pre-set amount of days you can play the content, or a custom number of days... I assume if you go with pre-set and max out, then the game ends prematurely, but not 100% sure... I went with a custom amount... Game play is broken up into the 7 days of the week along with 2 to 3 sections of each day... You can do things like attend school, work, shop, and wander around... There are also some character stats, and I would guess some hidden stats, but I can't confirm that... Viewable stats are things like school grade, money, and corruption level... Which does gate some content... But most content comes in the way of a mixture of set story arcs depending on choices made, as well as random events that may also involve choices... Corruption is not just increased via sexual choices either, as it appears to be an all encompassing measure that is effected by many varying choices...

There are a few story arcs that can be experienced, but as the game is still early in development, not all of the current story arcs are very long... Some are not even noticeable, easily, until after some choices have been made, which may or may not allow them to continue... So in essence, choices matter, and may end story lines prematurely, based on what you decide to do... The story elements are not lengthy or hugely deep... But most do feel somewhat meaningful and well put together... There is a bit of repetition with some random events, but some random events also revolve around a few story arcs that involve interactions at random intervals... And not all story arcs are sexual in nature... Do expect to spend some time with the grind elements, although they are not terrible... I do wish they had included the back button in the UI, but it doesn't show on the screen... So be prepared to save game now and then, just in case...

Overall, I think this one shows some potential for what it is... It's not a story rich VN/Game, but it does feel as though there are some well crafted story elements... Some attempts at humor are a bit drab, but some made me smile as well... I can see the developers are trying to make this VN/Game more then your average porn fest styled grinder... In fact, most erotic content is based around the text rather then the visuals, even though there are some present... There are also a few moments now and then where it feels as though some visuals are missing during some events, but again, this product is still in it's infancy... There are also some elements that are a bit over the top, but not enough to annoy me... I think this one shows some promise, again for what it is, and we'll have to wait and see if it keeps being promising or if it dives off the deep end at some point... I'm rooting for the continued promise, but you can never tell with many of these grinder VN/Games... Will I revisit this one? Probably yes, but only a bit later into it's development cycle...