Ren'Py - Completed - Unveiling the Unknown [v1.0.0] [TwistedScarlett60]

Saw this on Steam, noticed this utilized mdf-an's art and came here to check if it was used with permission. It was. Awesome.

This is a really fun game with good story and great characters, if you're a fan of futa protags this is a must try!

The GOOD:
-The dialog is good.
-The story is decent
-The ART. More subjective, but I love mdf-an's art style and TwistedScarletts art is also very good.

The MID:
-The grammar, while mostly good, does have errors every now and then.
-The dungeon combat shows promise with resource management and combos, but with the way enemies attack damage outscales your own health pools growth incredibly fast it all boils down to alpha-striking every encounter or dying.
-The ART. Unfortunately, mdf-an's art pieces weren't made specifically for this game but vice versa. This leads to some scenes reusing art and some art not perfectly capturing what happens in the narration.
A personal pet peeve are some of the nun scenes and all but one of Emis scenes not actually featuring the protagonist but a nameless more tanned stand-in. A problem that stems from it all being pre-existing instead of commissioned.

The MEH:
-While the story has replayability via different 'routes' the sex scenes do not. The game keeps statistics on the amount of sex you have with individual characters, but the scenes themselves are repeats with two or three changed lines at the beginning. The scenes being exact replicas makes sense when you view it through the daily 'hangout' which you used to unlock it, but when you're going straight for the 'sex' option and the scene plays out like it's the first time it just doesn't work.

All in all a very fun game, but repeating scenes should've been done via a gallery since they are pretty much word-for-word repeats of the first time.
Had the scene repeats had unique dialog this would've been a 5/5 for me.

Note: This review has made playing the 0.9.2 version of the game.

How do you manage to create a deep and complex history with a bunch of futanari images with original characters and having zero context about them? Sadly, I don't have the answer to that question, but the developer of this game did it somehow.

Unveiling The Unknown is an ambicious game that doesn't want to simply be another excuse to excercise your right hand in another lone night in front of your PC screen; it wants to give you more. With that said, this is not a game to simply jack off. While the developer makes that task easier offering you cheat codes, and the option to jump the text exists, I honestly suggest you to pay attention to the history and their characters. Everyone has development, everyone has their histories, everyone has doubts, strengths, weaknesses, and that includes the villains and the heroes of this history. Superficially it may look like another fantasy game with the generic war between demons and humans, but the concept is extraordinarily well-excecuted, and it attempts to offer you the less quantity of cliches possible, having some interesting plot-twists and unexpected surprises.
Putting aside the history, the sexual scenes are well done and they are interesting, combined with detailed descriptions, dirty talking, multiple fetishes, and the game respects the personality of the characters, recreating properly how they act on the bed without sacrificing their personalities during the sex. Doing that is hard, because a common mistake among writers in erotic games is breaking the characters' personalities in order of making them hotter but without any real justification beyond Oh my God, your cock is so huge... While here, the history takes its time to develop the interactions between the different characters, and we can say there's a real justification of why and how they start to act more and more flirty with the protagonist.
Speaking about another aspects, this game has turn based combat, skill trees, farming, and other gameplay features. If you have experience playing games, you'll probably adapt quickly to the challenge of collecting resources to upgrade your characters and fight in the dungeons. It might sound tedious, especially considering farming mechanics are flooding more and more the modern videogames. You may think, Another videogame with farming and upgrades? Oh God, please no! However, in my own experience, I can say farming this game is strangely enjoyable; I say is strange because I personally dislike farming mechanics, yet I had fun farming in this game. And considering this is an indie release developed in a record time, one may think the developer fell on the mistake of making a tedious farming system to artificially extend the game, but fortunately, I can say that wasn't the case. Once again, this is my personal experience, the experience of someone who prefers playing a single-player campaing over and over again than farming daily.
Now, about the defects of the game... I'll be honest with you, I had trouble thinking in the defects of this game, and I only found one. Remember: This game is set on a fantasy victorian era, and while it takes a lot of creative freedom, I don't understand why the developer thought it would be a good idea to include Internet slangs or references to some modern memes. Phrases such as Skill issue, Seggs?, among others feels really out of place considering, once again the era the game is set on. I think that would fit better in a game on a modern, or even a futurstic era.

Conclusions? I 100% recommend this game. But as I said before, this game is not for everyone, as it requires your attention to understand perfectly the history, the characters, its universe, and, how the title of the game suggest: Unveiling an unknown truth buried beneath the cracking ice under the characters' feet. If you came expecting something simple, to just kill some time, then I'm sorry to say it: You will not find it here. But if you have the patience and the time, then don't be shy and press that download button! You won't regret it at all, I promise.

A really good game.
Characters are interesting and cute, not just a dolls to mess up with.
Mains story is rather short and simple, but entertaining, especially at the end choices.
Fighting mechanics and skills are prety immersive. But I didn't see how it's connected to the characters relationships and the story itself. That is probably the only minus, I've found.

Game just as we expected from TwistedScarlett60. Plot is nice (for porn game: even absolutely great), I like music, characters are love-able, art style is just Scarlet Level... I'm not fan of NTR, but even this part is awesome! Game is far better than eg. My Tutition Academia, and - those who played MG1 - will catch refferences, not only obvious one as but You can eg. Buy Dante's Shield etc. But it's better than MG1? Imo: nope. Still deserves 5 stars, but sex scenes with maids are not as good (with few exceptions) and plot isn't as shockingly awesome. Also, fighting etc isn't rewarding at all. Ok, fine, it's optional, I've got it... But at end of the game I felt thtat my 400th lvl of Dungeon and almost maxed out mansion didn't made any difference. It's still great game and I would say it's difference 9.5/10 vs 10/10.

The developer stated that they were going for quality over quantity with this release, and it really shows. The game feels polished and focused, and the plot manages to be satisfying while also not getting in the way of the sex too much. I didn't engage very much with the dungeon mechanics, but I didn't feel like I was missing too much by skipping out on them, which is nice.

Anyway, highly recommended, 5 stars, etc etc.

I love this game, I'd rather give it a 4.5 than a 5, but it's not a 4, so 5 it is. The story is so wonderfully wholesome and cute, it touches on dark themes but navigates them in a way where you're left smiling and happy. There's not a lot of dramatic tension, the end is all but a foregone conclusion, but the journey is wonderful.

The art... I know the selling/unique point of this game was the maid art it was built around, but frankly, I don't like it as much as the original art in the games style, part of that is style and preference, but a lot of it is it not *quite* matching the writing, for example, a lot of the art seems to have the MC being very submissive and overwhelmed, even when they're on top, and just by the way TS writes the mc (who I adore) she's more than a little in control in most of her sexcapades, and the art doesn't reflect that, and I would have preferred original art.

The gameplay is... mid? It's kinda interesting at first but it devolves into almost a mobile game esque 'make number bigger' sort of thing, but you quickly realize it doesn't actually matter, going to the dungeon is entirely unconnected to the story, and something you only need to do if you want to. Like, it's fine, and I rarely found it worth skipping, but it's not the selling point for sure.

All in all, the story is great and fun, the characters are amazing, the writing is incredible, the original art is fantastic and the music in great, fantastic.

TwistedScarlett games are always a nice treat, but unfortunately as his games go this was probably my least favorite. Which by no means makes this a bad game, but there were several design oddities that I hope are not repeated in his future games.

- Firstly, I like the shift back from RPGMaker to RenPy, and it's praiseworthy that the actual RPG presentation did not shift backwards that much from MG1K. However, the RPG mechanic is just... not that fun in this game. Having to manage a million perks and tech trees and resource types is an even less fun kind of grind than having to deal with the usual bullshit minigames that normally pad out AVGs. I suspect that the author just really likes complicated RPG systems, but at least with MG1K you could just hit an "optimize" button for character builds and then let the game play itself. No such look here.

- The dungeon dives are kinda neat in theory, but in practice they are mindless and get repetitive quickly. There is not enough worthwhile content here (ie. the monster girls) to keep things fun.

- Because of the two prior points, plus the fact that you can only experience one scene per in-game day, the "gameplay" loop pretty quickly devolves into the following:

- Start day
- Go chat with all the girls for free affection points (1 minute)
- Watch a scene (5 minutes if you actually read the text maybe, 1 minute otherwise)
- Go to town and explore for a new town-building scene plus get any guild rewards from your last dungeon run (2 minutes)
- Spend your resources on a billion tech tree upgrades (3 minutes)
- Do a repetitive dungeon run until the heat gets so high that everything will one-shot you so you will eventually "die" and the run will end (5 minutes)
- Repeat until you realize that dungeons are stupid and you should just watch all the maid scenes and then touch grass.

- The core problem of course is that this means we've spent 10-15 minutes to enjoy a 1-5 minute scene (and ngl I skipped through most of the text.) In retrospect I guess I should've skipped it all. Yes, you will miss some minor scenes with side girls but as far as I can tell that's it. The dungeon runs never end, and once you've gotten the swing of things you can just faceroll through them mindlessly and then realize how much time you've wasted later.

- However, if you remove the dungeon mechanics the game is just.. a rather bland sandbox VN with an okay plot and girls who are unnecessarily boring. Restricting all the main girls to be maids (plus one nun I guess) in the same household makes the progression always feel the same, even if they have somewhat-different personalities. My main complaint about MG1K is that it was extremely bloated in some ways, but at least you had a very diverse cast and the whole "harem recruitment" thing is fun. Instead in this game the harem is basically already there and all you do as the MC is steal a bunch of horny virgin girls from your jerk brother. Maybe this is just meant to be a smaller / more-focused game than MG1K, idk.

- The artwork. While most of the VN content relies on AI-enhanced CGs, the maid scenes themselves have a handsketched style which is sorta neat but comes off as lazy/unfinished at times. I suspect that it's not just a style choice, but that the dev just had a bunch of early-stage art commissioned and for whatever reason chose not to finish it. [Edit] Actually I realize now that this entire game was premised around this pre-existing artwork, so a lot of things make sense now. The artwork is not unfinished, although I think having to work off of using it as source material may have limited the game a bit - but this is very speculative on my part. [/Edit] Also I don't understand why some of the side characters were made into black silhouettes. It sorta gave the vibe that the dev just wanted to wrap things up and move on.

- For all the negativity, I don't think this is a bad game and I'm going to give it four stars. I just think the world was more boring than previous TwistedScarlett games and I'm kinda sad that there's no trippy postgame content from what I can tell (I was thinking that maybe 100% journal completion would unlock something but then I realized that getting all the manor upgrades would require a lot more dungeon runs.) The main thing that is 100% a mistake is the complexity of the RPG stat system. It did not add depth/fun to the game and just wasted time, and I really hope that this is avoided in the dev's next project. Go deeper with the RPG mechanics, hell make some sort of cool new roguelike VN AVG, great. Maybe a sexy version of Fear and Hunger? Cool. But managing a bunch of stats / equipment all the time? Please cut down on this.

Amazing game, beautiful scenes, gameplay is there but not excessively forced in your face, and the dev works really hard and updates regularly - the polish:dev time ratio is really high. Futa MC is really hot, and the corruption mechanics are implemented very well.

One of the best games made;
fun - the dungeon is a functional game in itself,
hot - a good corruption story,
good writing - a well written story that accentuates the scenes,
amazing art - I don't know they make them this fast to be honest.
What else could you want?

the game is not bad but it doesn't have any real good points:
- girls are beautiful, but 2 art styles coexist, and it would be much better than only one was used. The 2 styles are lacking consistency.
- the plot is basically "fuck them all"; not a big problem.... but it never deviates from it, and is not enough used for it if we consider just the pure sex aspect of it.
- the nature of the game is repetitive and "scene"-based, which becomes tiresome, and lack narration. You choose the girl for which you want a scene, go fight in dungeon (unless you did like me a did big sessions of it because it was not very interesting and be done with it once and for all), sleep, repeat.
Each girl has from 3-9 scenes, and that's it.

All in all, I really wanted to love it more than I did and am sad to have not enjoyed more.

Great writing, great art and fun gameplay. Found myself thoroughly entertained, so I'm looking forward to this story end and follow the dev to new projects!

I very rarely read the entirety of a VN, but this one made me do it. That's as big a recommendation as I can give.

Also, Ophelia best girl!!!

I had mid expectations going into this game, but this game turned out to be pretty amazing. You play as the hero's sister and slowly "corrupt" and get with the maids of the manor. Here are some pros and cons.

Pros:
- Good game length (and still not finished yet!)
- Updates at a reasonable pace
- Many scenes to collect
- Actually a good story
- Replayable scenes

Cons:
- There's a big grind that may turn people away from the game (you can cheat though)
- There's NTR aspects to the game which may turn people off
- The art stlye differs from the sex scenes to the stills in the game

Great game and highly recommend playing!

Nice, so much story with quality detailed content. (Almost)Every character has their own scene, including some character that might just be an npc. On top of that, you get to steal girls from jerky brother. Only one noticeable thing is that all scenes are like draft with lightly colored which is not a big problem considering content amount.

The game has a surprising amount of depth to it's rpg mechanics for a Ren'Py game.
Lots of futa on girl sex scenes and stratifying story progression towards each of them. The route towards building your harem can be based on trust and polyamory or mind control based on your choices.

Came for the fap, stayed for the story.

Personally I really enjoyed the story, it's not overly complex but still engaging, I found myself playing for longer than usual, just because I want to find out what happens next.

Nice dungeon crawler with nice plot and Maiden theme!
It surprisingly being updated often and getting content every month. Seems to be finished, soon. And this is pretty unique for most games on this site.
Great game especially if you liked Monster Girl 1000, this one has less darker twists thou.

Extremely Entertaining

From the dungeon crawling to the narrative of the "relationships" between the MC and the maids and shopkeepers its fun and a good way to kill time.

I've liked every game @TwistedScarlett60 has made that I've played so far (MonsterGirl1000 and Unveiling the Unknown) I cannot wait until this game is released in full so I can binge the rest lmao.

Keep it up @TwistedScarlett60

Just a very good game. The dungeon crawling is pretty fun, I like the story and characters, leveling and upgrading everyone is satisfying (numbers go brrr), the light touch of netori (sorta-cucking your arsewipe brother), the great art - all adds up to a very satisfying experience

A lewd game with an actual game in it!

Another fine hit from someone who actually finishes a product.

I loved each and every one of the haram, the story twists were somewhat predictable but the execution was good in all regards. I think I spent 14 hours to complete the content without cheating and didn't feel the grind was oppressive.

After playing and thoroughly enjoying Monster Girl 1000, I was excited to see a new project by TwisterScarlett60. Once again, I've really enjoyed myself.
The story is a lot of fun and seems to build upon the world (universe? multiverse?) from Monster Girl 1000, so I look forward to see where that goes. The story is very clealy more than just 'lines of text that explain why everyone wants to bed you' and I've found myself genuinely invested in the characters, worldbuilding and whatever kind of connection there might be between this game and the last. I wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone who likes a bit of an emotional connection while one-handedly pressing spacebar.
Besides the classic visual-novel type gameplay, there's a roguelitey dungeoney progression system too, which was fun. I did sorta break it about 2 or 3 updates ago so I can't really tell you anything about the current system, but the road to getting every single upgrade (except for that one) was really fun. Seeing which upgrades boost your progression the most, and every so often getting an upgrade that suddenly exponentially increases your loot was very satisfying.
I'm not great at thinking of good, constructive feedback (or putting my thoughts into words at all), so I normally don't really leave reviews, but I just really wanted to share how much I've enjoyed this game and how much I've looked forward to every update.
One thing I'd like to see in the final version would be a clear difference in the story from the choices made in the game, or, if people don't want to replay the game, some final choice with a bit of impact. The story so far has already been hinting that a big choice might come up eventually so I've kinda been assuming it'd happen anyway, but I couldn't really think of anything else I'd really want. (Now that I think about it, I remember earlier updates giving the player a choice after hangouts to be an ass or not, but I haven't seen that in a while so I assume that's been scrapped? I don't really mind because I didn't like the mean choices anyway, but something similar to that regarding how you choose to act at the end of the game (I don't know how to spoiler mark text, so I'll try to leave it vague), would be neat to see.)
From what I've seen so far playing this game and Monster Girl 1000, whatever may come in the final update, I'm sure I'll enjoy it a great deal.

(also Mirabelle is best girl, and the number two spot goes to literally everyone else, they're all great)