VN - Ren'Py - Unleashed [v0.7.0b] [CarbonBlue]

There’s not much I can say about Unleashed because there’s not much there to discuss. Despite over 6 years of development, I was able to finish the current content in about two hours, of which there was barely any adult content. I enjoyed what was there, but I have no illusions that I’m ever going to see this project finished.

There are four main love interests of which you can currently have sex, once, with two of them. Both scenes are brief and poorly animated. I prefer multiple renders to poor animation, but it is what it is. There’s no music but a mod adds some. The writing is pleasant and funny and the various love interests are distinct and interesting. I would expect, with a more active author, that they would eventually be fleshed out, but as I said this is not one of those projects.

I’m not sure how to rate this game. If this were year one, I would probably give it 4 stars. Adult scenes need work but otherwise it’s a fun little romp. However, given how long it has been around and how small the updates have been despite monstrously long update cycles, there’s just no way this project will ever be finished. The sex progression also makes little sense. One love interest you have sex with relatively early on, but then things are suddenly sorta platonic, and in the last update she… masturbates alone? It just all feels so low effort. I likely would never have bothered with the title if it were not advertised by another author.

Still, what is there was fun enough I guess. A game isn't all bad if one of my main complaints is that there isn't enough of it, right?

Its great fun with lots of jokes and some brilliantly crafted characters with some great one-liners. Olivia is so good with a fantastic catchphrase. Surprisingly the weakest character is the MC, which is kind of refreshing. If it actually had a background story and better looking female characters it could be one of the greats but I still love what we have.

Not much I don't love about this one. Great writing all around but the comedic stuff actually had me laughing out loud. Animations are strong and give perspectives you don't often see. Keep it up, Dev, you're doing a great job!

It was good a good start a few year ago.... then this short update in two years. Nah... not worth it, the quality also did not improve over the time.

Shame i liked angel but it's not worth the wait. Hence no quality improvement and writing.

+ Angel & Olivia, best gals
+ avn is generally very positive with many funny moments and conversations
+ no drama
+ likable characters
+ renders/animations
+ no plot, good to play from time to time a game, without deep story and walls of boring text
+ not a lot of content. You can quickly finish this game and move on to another

- MC barely speaks here. It's fucking strange..
- lewd scenes are bit disappointing. They should be definitely much much longer
- no gallery

Hard to rate this game, it depends on your expectations - mine were not too high and I was hoped to quickly finish this game. 4 stars

This is tricky to review, because as an AVN, there are fairly serious issues, but there's a core to the game that is hard to put down.

I'll start with the issues, because I find that more useful when deciding if I'm going to play a game than the positives.

1. There is not much content in general, and even less adult content. This has been a problem since launch. Each update can be fully exhausted in a few minutes, and the updates are few and far between. The current update, which carries on the FOUR branching paths from the end of v6 (one for each, presumably, LI), took about 20 minutes to play through every path, each of which consisted of a handful of unique screens at the beginning followed by, generously, five minutes of generic story that was not impacted at all by which beginning scene you had, and did very little to progress a largely non-existent story.

2. The visuals are nothing special. They're competently crafted, which is better than the worst looking games on this site can claim, but by 2025 standards, they are merely acceptable.

3. There's no sense that the story is going anywhere in particular. There's nothing wrong with a slice-of-life style narrative; not every game needs to set out to tell a huge, important story. But, largely due to how little content there is in general, it barely even feels like a slice of life. Now seven updates in, there is very little forward momentum. A couple of things may have happened, depending on your choices, but none of it seems to matter.

Now, like I said, there is an appealing core beyond the negatives.

1. The writing is good, both mechanically, which is rare as hell, and in dialogue. The characters, with one exception, are frequently funny, and their interactions with each other and MC feel authentic to the characters.

2. While the renders aren't particularly special, the characters are generally good. These aren't the same generic models you've seen in dozens of lazy cash-grabs. The characters are really expressive. There's not a ton of variety in their physiques, which some people won't like, but they're neither grossly exaggerated bimbos, nor flat chested every character is at least 18 *wink*. They look like, if not the kind of women you'd see on the street, the kind you'd see on Instagram. The MC is a normal looking guy, it doesn't do that thing where for some reason you never see his face, and he has a normal, human-sized dick. I do think the quality of the character is directly proportional to how much the developer likes them, but I rank them roughly the same, apparently, so that's not a problem for me.

Overall, this is a flawed AVN, but one that I'll keep following because it has the rare quality that I like the characters enough to want to see where they go. If you're only looking to skip text between sex scenes, this isn't the game for you, nor are you likely to find satisfaction if you need a compelling narrative. But there's just enough here, between the writing and the characters, that the flaws don't quite matter as much as they would in a different, lesser game.

3.5/5

This one is... actually difficult to review in any objective capacity, so if you're reading this at all, be aware that it is my personal biased view on it.

I'll start with the fact that as the warning itself says, there is no plot and I have the sense that the dev is freestyling, so with that in mind and a bit lower expectations, Unleashed can be actually enjoyable.

It is not a fuckfest you click through, what it does it build anticipation with these hot girls, but it's being fun (and more often than not, hilarious) while you're at it, and as of 0.7, there are payoffs with two of them already.

Renders start off mid but as the game progresses, the dev's skill has visibly increased and the quality is much higher in later episodes than in early ones.

Conclusion... if you judge the game that it isn't serious when it is not even trying to be that, that's on you. But if you come with expectations with mostly mindless fun (mostly but not completely because there are a couple of surprise thought provoking moments), and want to look at hot girls, you might like Unleashed.

Game version: 0.7.0b

Chaotic, inconsistent, cringe.

This wants to be another harem/ "one dude living together with a house full of (horny) women"-type of game, I got it.

Sadly, the way the plot and scenes are knit together can only be described as "random". The transitions between and even DURING dialogs change way too fast and lack of reason.
The amount of choices to make is just too much, too. It feels like after every 10-20 lines of text there comes a multiple choice of at least 5 choices to choose from. Annoying and also killing the immersion/ drive.
The visual quality is mediocre at best, maybe slightly worse than that.
Sound is almost non existent and therefore feels redundant.

Altogether, it's a waste of time. I also doubt its potential to become any better. No recommendation.

VERSION: 0.6.5b
SUMMARY: Decent on a few levels, but sadly does not have enough content nor is interesting enough to keep the player vested, this all for a game that has been around for 5 years and goes nowhere...meh
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 4
2. Animations: 3
3. General Visuals: 3
4. Characters: 3
5. Story: 3
6. Writing: 3
7. Pacing: 3
8. Content (amount): 2
9. UI & Sounds:3
10. Lewd & Kinks: 3

Average: 30 of 50 possible points giving a 60% rating i.e. 3 stars.

PROS:

1. Nice looking models
2. Visuals are generally good, renders are decent
3. Music and sounds are nice
4. Reads and is structured fine
5. Choice based but no clear indication what the stats will do in the future...
6. Some funny humour, though some a bit over the top, leaving me thinking "ok...that just happened"

CONS:

1. Animations are few and far between and are not really good quality.
2. Little to no lewd scenes, only lewd scenes are short lived, dark and point of view is not great.
3. No lewd scene sounds.
4. The UI is non-existent and there is no way to track your stats or even know what they do. Wasted mechanic IMO
5. Pacing feels off simply because the MC just gets there and already the sexual innuendos are happening and even a half baked sex scene. The "landlady" also wants to jump his bones almost immediately.
6. The game story is mostly a bunch of sub stories for each character or love interest, there is really no over arching plot, which would be fine if there was actually entertaining things happening.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

• Episodes are short, in 6 Episodes there is one "half" sex scene that was not really good and one blow job. All 6 episodes combined maybe make up one normal one IMO.
• The sexual tension with everyone right off the bat is annoying to me because there really isn't much to the characters other than them being these sex starved individuals and the MC being the only guy on the planet that could have satisfied that need and his arrival has made them all lose their inhibitions as he is their last chance to get laid...at least thats the impression i get.
• Don't get me wrong, adult VNs are suppose to have plenty of sex in them, its just how this games story gets to that or drives that and that with little to any story.
• While I get the dev is trying to keep the game "slice of life" concept going, its just not working, there is not enough content nor development of character relationships to keep this game interesting. This could have worked maybe if the MC was a pervert trying to create countless scenarios where he could bang all the LIs like a pervert story mixed with something out of Home Alone, except the MC isn't alone and he is horny, so what craziness can he get up to. While thats a weird idea maybe, it sure as shit would have been far more entertaining than this game...
• Overall not a horrible game, its fairly decent, my biggest issue is the small short episodes that are almost not worth the effort. Wait maybe when 2 or 3 are out.
• For a game that was released in 2019 and only has this tiny amount of content and then its also not amazing quality content...yeah...I don't need to say more.
• Many reviews that are here now are old and IMO should be removed or archived as they do not reflect the current state of the game, especially considering the amount of time since the first release which would easily cause that those reviews would be much lower today...

Absolutely one of the best VN in Hindsight of Story Character Depth and Animation. But I must say that the Updates are far away every time. Yes, I think it's the Reason it works so well and is that addictive. Addiction and waiting doesn't work that well with each other. But it's an absolute Must have

English:............10/10
User Interface:.....3/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................6/10
Dialogue:...........9/10
Story:..............5/10
Opinion:............7/10................
Avg:.............6.71/10 [3.35/5]

As it stands, reviewing this game is gonna be an unfortunate experience for me. Not because I hate the game, far from it. I actually like this game a lot, it's one of the only AVNs to actually make me laugh. The real pain is going to be dissecting the non-existent story, bad coding, at best poorly executed and at worst just false gameplay promises, and my general distaste for anything DDLC-like. "Subversion of expectations" is getting so old, my expectations will be subverted if you don't try to do it. Add all that to the slower than glacial pace that this is developed at, and ultimately you have a disappointing game. To recap what little I remember about this, as it's been a long while, "MC moves into his NOTfamily's house after X years and suddenly, he's attracted to all of them. Then the slutty goth girl next door instantly wants to bang him." The end. Sure, the dialogue in this is better than most, but having the same shitty plot as every other game that exists is inexcusable. Shannon is the disgruntled younger sister-type. She's smart and has most of the comedic dialogue. Maeve is the older sister type that is literally just there to be a 4th wall boundary break. The mere idea of her character is the most annoying thing on the planet to me, and ultimately everything to do with her led nowhere. Olivia is the cougar, no further traits. And Angel is the aforementioned goth type with the trailer-trash sob story. Boo hoo. On top of all that, the art is dated and completely inconsistent. And again, I REALLY want to emphasize I love the dialogue in this. It's what made this whole this stick in my mind since I played it 5 years ago. But that's another thing.. FIVE years and the last few updates they can't advance the version number because they keep wanting to test BASIC renpy functionality. It's absurd. I went through the infinitely long script file, LIKE THEY WANT, because they don't seem to know you can split it up into any number of files, and it's all just basic stuff minus a glitch effect at the end that jumps you back so you can make the "right" decisions.

Really, I can't go on my usual long-winded tirade hitting every story beat. NOTHING happens. Like I said, MC moves in with his dads old friend with her two adult daughters. Shannon's friend Angel visits all the time because she can't stand her trailer trash mom. MC, uncharacteristically, has very little lines. The only person that lets him talk is Maeve. Her entire character is "CAN YOU TELL THIS IS AN AVN?!?!" All but one scene with her is a 4th wall break. Shannon is a typical tsundere type. And Olivia is the mother that wants to let loose. The story is nothing but I can happily say, characters don't do dumb shit for the sake of porn plot to happen. It all feels well written enough to work. Outside of Maeve, obviously. She has one decent scene when she feels regret about getting MC roofied on his first night. The rest is "You're so interesting because you're the player of an AVN." It's not cute. It doesn't entice me. And it gets old. It really is a shame that MC is mostly non-existent through this story. Shannon, Angel, and Maeve have good banter. Sure, it goes on a little too long and tries a little too hard, but it's not awful. I honestly believe that if this dev decided to actually write a story, I'd be a huge fan. But no, we're gonna get v6.6 because they've been frequenting the dokidoki discord to make another fake error screen.

This is probably one of my shorter actual reviews in recent memory. Mostly because this game is so short with no notable story. This is the second game ever, for me, to get a 10 in English. Not only do I not remember any typos, but it all reads like an actual English speaking human. I'm happy about that. The UI/UX is completely default. Not only that, but the music is mapped to the wrong slider somehow? How do you not touch the UI and still break it? It boggles the mind. The art, like I said, is dated. The lighting is inconsistent at best, Maeve changing hair color looks more like an accident than anything, and the male character models look cheap. The dialogue is still great. I'm very happy to admit it. They all feel personable, there's not a lot of forced references, outside Maeve, and the only complaint is that it's ridiculously short. The story, is nothing. It's not bad because there's nothing here, but it's not good because it's just not good. As for the opinion, I'm such a sucker for good dialogue that I bumped it up a lil higher than it needs to be probably.

If by some miracle the dev reads this. Write more. Screw all this ddlc fake error garbage. There's nothing in the forums. There's no external ARG thing, it's crap, frankly. You've made a couple good characters, now round out the other two that need more than horny mother and 4th wall. You need to fix a lot of code as well. Organize it and initialize variables better. I'll continue to be morbidly curious as this goes on.

Unleashed 0.62b

I'm not quite sure how to review this one since it seems like there's some sort of meta aspect to this game that's interesting but not really supposed to make sense until the end (so anything I said about it would be mostly speculation). I guess I'll just mostly talk about what works and doesn't as for me in it so far as a normal avn.

The writing is solid and dialogue is full of great banter. The most enjoyable part of this avn thus far has easily been the dynamic between the girls that live in the house. The way they interact with each other reminded me of my friends when I was that age... as much as we cared about each other and would have each other's backs, we would constantly give each other shit and try to get one over on each other. That's what it feels like with all the girls in the house, though especially between Shannon and Angel. There were a good number of moments that either made me laugh or smile (mostly to do with Shannon's antics and quips) and even a few tiny heart wrenching moments. The only possible nitpick with the writing is that a lot of pop-culture references are made that I mostly get as a slightly past middle-aged man but I'm not so sure people of the characters age would actually know that well (guess it's hard to say these days with streaming everything and meme culture). The characters aren't super deep but we learn more about them over time in what's been a slow satisfying manner so far. Maeve seems like she's been kept a bit more mysterious than the others intentionally.

There are plenty of choices but few are actually meaningful so far and there's no big branching narratives or anything like that. The most meaningful decisions thus far seem to be around whether the MC accepts or refuses advances. The effects of those choices at this point are generally short term consequences of how another girl feels as a result. Though there are very few of these sorts of choices so far, I like how the results play out in both pretty subtle and not so subtle ways depending on who's involved.

Despite some choices, that MC largely feels like a passenger along for the ride in this game. He's so passive and blank that I'm not sure if it's being done intentionally or not. He rarely initiates anything or says anything that isn't a response. When you do choose a response there will occasionally be render and line of text of him saying it, but a good portion of the time clicking a response leads right to a direct response from the character(s) he's talking to. It's all feels a bit uncanny.

Visually, the game looks a tad dated. The character models and renders could both be better frankly but I adjusted to the look pretty quickly once I got into it. Posing is generally well done aside from a few minor issues here and there but in earlier parts of the game there's a tendency to transition between different poses in a way that can feel jarring and unnatural. Facial expressions and overall visual expressiveness is great. Animations aren't used much which is for the best given how bad the one for the only sex scene was. My biggest complaint is that the nipples on the girls look too similar in size/shape and aren't terribly appealing (they look as you might expect in an older game). Why are the nipples such an issue? That's because that's really the most we see of the girls in terms of any female nudity in the game thus far, which seems like a good part to discuss next.

When it comes to lewd content (and progression in general), and I think this is where most will take issue, there's not much there at all and it's not great. There's one short sex scene which is done in an interesting way but marred by using really bad animation instead of just static renders. There's also one short BJ (fully clothed) and one instance of helping a random girl get off in public (on the subway). Otherwise, everything else is just occasional flashing boobs or other brief nudity. Personally, I find the girls are still sexy without much explicit content and teasing/exhibitionism appealing but I fully understand people not being pleased with either the lack of lewd content or just the really slow progression overall in character/story progress if they've been following the game for years. The author's been clear that lewd content is to service the story and not the other way around but people should be aware of both this aspect and that it seems progress of the releases tends to be extremely slow at this point.

Audio is decent where it's used and Music I can't really comment on since I used KoGa's music mod (which I definitely would recommend).

Overall, I enjoyed playing what's available and hope I'm playing these games long enough to see where it ends up. Visually it could be a lot better but the writing and humor made it worthwhile. The dynamic with the girls and my possibly misplaced interest around what the heck the author will do with the more meta part of the game (hopefully not drop it) will keep me curious about returning to this once finished.

Note that the review score is solely reflective of what I played and does not take into account how slowly the game is released or story progression - the game is at this point fairly short and kinda feels like it's still just getting going despite being in development for 4 years for the release I played (5 years total but there hasn't been another release yet). That should be taken into account as far as your expectations though.

Yeah, I'll keep it simple. This is by far the best written and directed SoL AVN out there. The level of character definition, dialogue crafting and scenes direction being maintained consistently throughout the novel is a couple of times higher than anything I've seen in top 200 AVNs (by user ratings and by views and downloads) so far. 5 minutes in you already understand that you're reading something written and directed by a highly skilled professional writer (with superb scene directing skills as well), who uses this medium as an exercise in merely retouching everything that's bad and cringe in SoL AVNs and making it acceptable, believable, fun and engaging. The absence of "the plot" and "the story" that some people here pointed out completely misses the purpose and the goal of this exercise, that is clearly stated and explained by the author on his Patreon. This one should serve as a craftmanship benchmark for roughly 99% of AVN authors, no matter the genre and the style they work in. Personally, I even think this guy should be outsourced as a co-writer and co-director by almost every author of any of the top 20-30 AVNs, at least at a chapter script brainstorming and first draft stages, as it would give them even more edge in the cluttered and trashy adult games space when they hit the Steam for big bucks.

Story might be a bit vanilla but i enjoyed some of it atleast, its pretty well written and has some fun stuff as well, its very clear that this is ment to be played as a fuckfest where you try to get with everyone which isent for me.

I am not the biggest fan of the girls, it leans towards big tit fetish which is one thing i hate, only one LI as normal tits so that dosent really leave much to be desired for the normal/smaller tit lovers.

Story 3/5
Like i said vanilla but i liked it, its a pretty simple story with a dude moving into a house with an all girl familie, and he goes to college where he will proberly meet more LIs like the teacher, if the game ever gets there.

Girls 2/5
Most wasent really in my taste due to big tit stuff, so i only really cared about the redhead, wish there where more diversity in the girls build so there would be something for everyone.

Animations 2/5
There just arent enough animations to really make a decent review of them, the one with the punk girl was pretty poor and lighting way to dark.

Music/effects 4/5
It has some decent music and sound effects.

Choices 1/5
There is alot of choices that dosent really do or change anything and results in the same text no matter what you pick, but i do belive you can turn down a LI like i did with the mother, but she still keeps on trying to get with MC.

Updates 1/5
Its simply just way to slow, game is over 6 years old and there is still barely any content and almost no sex scenes, its not like the story feels drawn out but due to small and rare updates it really just makes it pointless to play or support the game since it might never be finished, i would buy it on steam if it ever got finished but i expect that to take 5-10 years more at this speed.

I waited 4 years to review this, the time has come.
The writing is witty and intuitive which will undoubtably bring people into this vn thinking something may eventually happen.
I can assure you nothing ever will happen in this "slice of life" vn. It has no narrative, no plot, no direction or identity.
What is presented as a possible supernatural tale is quickly sidelined into sterotypical oops woman i don't know saw something they shouldn't.
I'm really let down by the fact he didn't keep the supernatural vibe going. That is what made this stand out to begin with. And now.......... now its just some dude living with a few beauties that all want his dick. About as standard as it gets for f95.
I really waited till the "big update" to post this, till I realised it was never going to happen, and that the apparent writing direction was one that would never be completed nor could it ever be.
The writing has diminished since the first update going from something that had all of our attention to something we periododically check every year or so for updates. To be clear in 4 years the story hasn't advanced at all nor do I think it ever will. In the 4 years of updates we had covid lockdowns, government overreach, restriction of rights, ufos, and plethora of others. Yet in this game the only thing that has happened thus far is angel coming home from a strip club and everyone watching movies together? Like how have you not been inspired dude? Real life seems more interesting than whatever this is. And that is a shame, because it could have been so much more.
R.I.P.

Of my five favorite novels of the hundreds and hundreds that I follow or have read. The girls are great, perhaps too self-confident but they are forgiven, the graphic quality is good and you don't get bored throughout the story, waiting for how the relationship with each one of them progresses. The problem is that if I had to choose one, I wouldn't know which one to choose, I have fallen in love with Maeve, Angel and Shannon; Even her mother, Olivia would not rule her out. I hope the creator continues to delight us with this marvelous novel.

Unleashed has a very unique sense of humor that I appreciate very much. Subtle and smart. The characters are very likable and the plot is fun and doesn't exploit its protagonists sexually, which is my clear preference.

A year ago it would have been a five star experience. But the lack of updates and the tiny size when they appear makes it very difficult to stay in the mood and by the time this game is completed, the graphics will probably be outdated as well. It's not a big deal for a 3-4 star VN but for a five star review it's kind of a game breaker.

Unleashed is really well done, has a unique sitcom vibe, meaningful relationships and lots of teasing. But so far it's not even indicating any kind of endgame and that combined with the horrible update speed make me question a thing or two.
Is it just a dating simulator and we have to choose our LI at the end? Is there an actual overarching plot in the making? Will the plot see a quick wrap up at some point because the developer moves on with his life? It's difficult to tell at this point.

My rating went down one star because the update speed is getting even slower. (09/2024)

Review of Unleashed v0.6.5b:

Overall: 3/5 - It's a great visual novel and has some real entertainment value. Unfortunately, players are never going to see how it ends, because there's no chance it will ever be completed.

Story: 3/5 - It's not much more than a cookie-cutter adult game story. I appreciate that there's no incest, but the game pretty much follows the stereotype "landlady and roommates" storyline, which works for a porn game, but players certainly won't get hooked on the story. At least the characters are fun to help make up for it.

Writing: 5/5 - The writing is top-tier for adult VNs. It's got style, it's got humor, and it has the right mix of dialogue/narration and visuals.

Renders: 4/5 - The visuals are mostly good, but even the good renders are starting to look dated due to how long the game has been in development. The female models are beautiful but they're hardly unique as they've all appeared in other VNs. There are some fairly bad renders, though, such as the subway scenes where all of the people just look like sprites.

Animations: 3/5 - Animations are infrequent and they range from jerky 2-frame to fairly smooth medium-framerate animations. Unfortunately, the better animations are only used for minor stuff like idle actions during conversations, instead of lewd scenes where it matters most.

Sound: 4/5 - Music is decent and isn't just used for background noise, it changes at specific times within a scene. Sound effects are infrequent, but good.

Content: 3/5 - The quality of content that's in the game is very good. However, there's hardly any lewd content at all, and there's far too little content overall for both the number of major releases and the amount of development time.

Other: I just replayed the entire game because it's been over 15 months since the last update and I had forgotten the entire story. It came back to me as I played, but I didn't even notice any of the new content in 0.6.5b that was supposedly added in the middle of Episode 6. I really like this game, and I think most players that try it for the first time will also like it. However, I can't recommend it because there's just no hope for players to see it through. This game is, conservatively, around 30% complete after 5 years and progress is only slowing.

The game shows good promise, but that's about it. The models look great, the story havn't really grabbed me yet. It's pretty short and there is almost no sex in the game. Can't recommend in it's current state. I'm a bit puzzled about the current 4.5 star rating.

The characters and dialogue are really well written in this game. It's refreshing to have characters feel like they're actually people. For that reason alone I would recommend it. The character models are very well made as well.

It's not perfect though, the sex scenes themselves are pretty average in terms of eroticism, and the story is pretty formulaic as well, but the characters being funny make up for a lot of it.