Ren'Py - Completed - Unveiling the Unknown [v1.1.0] [TwistedScarlett60]

It's good, if the game didn't abandon the hand drawn images at the end i think it would be a more solid 4, now it's almost a 3*.

The story is plausible, which is good.

The characters don't have much depth/growth, but there is a reason why things happen the way they do, and it's really well explained/done, so it's more of a "shame" that wasn't better explored

The writing is pretty good, sex-wise. Actually i thought the author was a woman because the writing kinda fits there, the smut, build up and so-so. Kinda vanilla, mostly blowjobs/vaginal, besides a few encounters with the dungeon merchants that do some extra.

The combat is serviceable, but gets kinda boring after a while, a little before the game ends, so eh.

Overall 3/5. A VN RPG that "starts off great" with a set up for an interesting world with lots of promise, however, the game gets worse as you go, the poor pacing, lack of impact, and inconsequential story really made it a chore to finish

Story 3.5/5. Story starts off strong and interesting, presenting the world, characters, and goals really well, it has several good set ups and pay off, and the writing is very consistent with its in universe rules. The problem is it takes a while to get to the next part of the story and at no point do you feel any threat to your MC and FMCs, this ultimately resulted in a dragged out and boring experience.

Characters 3/5. The FMCs are great, each with their own personalities, "challenges", and growth. The problem is, for the most part, their arcs happens off screen, meaning you barely see them affected by their challenges, their challenges never affect you, and you don't see them face their challenges and grow, you only know this because they tell you. Add that to the fact that it gets resolves really quickly, by the time its done it feels like it never happened. Also by the end of the story all their personalities mostly become loyal horny sex addicts

Gameplay 2.5/5. The core gameplay is: dungeon run for loots, use loots to upgrade, and repeat. It starts of great, an exciting dungeon to explore with a big upgrade tree to complete, BUT, it gets really repetitive, no big mechanic ever gets introduced so by your 8th run or so everything is the same, only the numbers get bigger

Visual 2/5. Usual edited AI generated art work, they are either character stills, icons, monsters, or background. No other art for events or action scenes.

Adult Content 4/5. Ignoring the grind get to them, they come in 2 kinds of art, the AI generated and the hand drawn. The AI ones are pretty meh. The hand drawn however are very visually appealing and refreshing, they are however mostly just an image.

It's kinda long, and you need to do some grind (there is a cheat mode tho) but at the end of the day it has an interesting story, and I end up liking most of the characters and scene's. At the beginning, I didn't like the type of combat of the game, but when I got 2 hours into it, I was immersed in the battles. (sorry if It's kinda hard to read, English is not my first language)

Grinding the optional dungeon was a bit annoying after a while but honestly the scenes you get with the girls are some of the best on this site, especially for a futa protagonist. A few of the scenes are even wholesome despite you know, it being a porn game based on a harem of maid and adjacent girls.

A game with a simple story, but good after all. I love the gameplay with battles per turn in the dungeon with each heroe with hers habilities. The gameplay between the days help to not be a linear history and just clicking to advance.

One of the best visual novels I've ever read. I have over 15 years of experience in this, so I know what I'm talking about. This game is about pure, unadulterated domination. I really liked the execution of the idea, because there are a couple of other games with a similar plot, but they trivialize and distort everything in favor of the grotesque. This is an ode to domination.

This is my first review on the site since register (8 years ago), and who would tell me that it would be for a VN game of all things (not my thing).
What does this game that's so special? It can maintain a realistic mood with the characters, and conduct it with your decisions. It's nothing otherwordly, the game has the scenes it has and there's no branching paths, but is something esential that I find many lack.
Is it a netori game? Yeah, but it has the progression and end you want. Is it heavy in the corruption/manipulation? Not superficially, but Ophelia comentary on one of the endings broke my heart seeing how deep it can be.
Being RenPy allows for easy backtracking for viewing multiple choices. Every character is lovely, and I'll miss them very much.

The animated scenes look half-done, but it's an artistic expression that I feel it adds to the experience. The gameplay is solely a non-loss economy game really detached from the whole game, but ambience fits within the story. The story is very good, to the point of desiring it to be made in an OVA series. Hope to hear from the bunch in the future.

I find that I like this game a bit more than MG 1k. This game has a better story and it seems more finished. Its buggy at times and the combat isn't as good as MG 1k but the art is more consistent all the way through. There are some clearly cut corners and unfinished sections and it grinds my gears with how easy they are to spot.

This is the most expansive story in an h-game that has ever drawn me in. The different maids had great and distinct personalities that each even stayed in tact through their story progression/corruption even in the face of the slightly diverging paths that each come to a dramatically different ending, especially for the NPCs.

The dungeon crawling being optional is a bit of a sneaky lie, since it rewards you heavily with scenes and npcs that only appear in the dungeon, but I love the system overall. It feels like a great blend of an engaging story with great writing, sparce-but-well-timed humor and, if you choose to play the game without cheats, hours of play time. The dungeon combat is intuitive and doesn't feel like a slog. SFX were amazing.

And on top of all that the MTF gender option has transpositive dialogue?!
✋✋ Absolute Cinema

Pros:
- Incredibly strong story
- Amazing scenes
- Amazing girls
- Good pacing between H and gameplay
- High amount of scenes

Cons:
- Combat isn't as good as it could be
- Dungeon mechanics aren't fleshed out
- Dungeon must be done once per day so the other 2 cons stand out more.

Extremely good masturbation material. Highly recommend.

This was an unexpected gem. The splash/character art doesn't appeal to me, but the sex scene art and writing is so hot that I can forgive it. I think very few authors on this site know how to write a good sex scene, let alone a harem, but this one delivers. It's got personalities that aren't braindead, interesting scenes, good sex drive, and loads of corruption.

First, the artwork. mdf-an's art isn't the usual amateurish slop churned out by most games. It's sketchy, but the perspectives are unique and full of care. The poses show a real understanding of how bodies work. They fuck how I like to fuck. The other artwork in the game is ok, but the change in style is very jarring. Most minor characters have brief scenes done in the other style, and they range from mediocre to decent.

The writing is really where this game shines. The relationships are built on empathy and releasing a lot of pent up sexual & emotional frustration, which is much hotter than girls fawning over your typical passive protagonist (or raging asshole) for no apparent reason. I won't say that every scene is incredible (some are pretty bland), but there are way more hits than misses. This game also has the only remotely plausible harem scenario I've ever seen on this site. I'm not saying this is Shakespeare, but the bar for writing in porn games is incredibly low. This game flies over them.

The gameplay is pretty shallow. In fact, the only interesting part about it is the "meta" progression through the massive research & talent trees. It's easy and easily broken. At least it's not time consuming and doesn't really matter. Who plays porn games for the gameplay, anyway?

The game falls off as you get past most of the maid scenes and they run out of mdf-an artwork. For a bit, I felt like I was in an anime for teens, and the girls couldn't stop monologuing about the demon war (sorry, I couldn't care less about your fantasy world). It's worth it for some great epilogue scenes, though.

5/5 because it made me cum a lot and didn't waste my time on bullshit.

Loved the artstyle, loved the gameplay, loved all the extra things to do. Eventually the gameplay gets easy and you just beat every enemy until you decide to stop or until every buff runs out, but before that point I have no complaints. Only 'complaint' is there not being more content :^). I love the girls!

Well looks like ai generated art so sex scenes are just normal-not bad but not good either.The game locations are good,they looks like very nice and unic that receives good point cause nor much games concentrating to create unic locations.But the story,gameplay,dialogs are interesting.So this is unusual for porn game but I give 5 stars for them.

i'll give it 3 star,it feels like a visual novel it probably just is a VN,too much text,i was enjoying the dungeon a little but it gets repetitive real fast and it also doesn't matter.
the story also doesn't matter imo,the girl just throw themselves at you anyway,no real choice just next it like any VN

It's fun. It's a largely wholesome experience, and maybe at times not wholesome enough- it's inherently pornographic, and sometimes if feels like it veers towards a sex scene a little early. But oh well. The dungeon gameplay is simple, but serviceable.

The worst I can say about it, and why it gets a four in mind mind, is that the main character's origin gender is technically in flux, which puts the writer in a hole. Multiple characters reference sapphic tendencies and how homosexuality is looked down on, just... not in the context of them fucking the MC, who in the primary, default origin is a girl with a penis. The issue is one of them has them distinctly as a femboy, so suddenly any sapphic stuff is ignored cuz in one potential origin you have that he/him pronouns, so it's no longer a gay lovefest (with an erection (those can be sapphic too, as a treat.))

It's off putting to me, but not a deal breaker. Just a disappointment.

It's... fine, I guess?

A big part of Unveiling the Unknown is the dungeon diving gameplay, which starts bad and gets worse. It starts as this sort of tedious turn-based system with lots of reading and not much payoff, and quickly turns into an even more unbalanced mess. Within a handful of nights, my party could easily 1shot everything long after the point where it could 1shot my party, meaning that I'd just sit there mindlessly clicking for a while until eventually I got kicked out of the dungeon. Later on, it turned out that other than unlocking scenes with the various dungeon women, the dungeon didn't even serve any purpose.

The core story and scenes are nothing to write home about but they aren't offensively bad either. They're just sort of there, and serve as a passable vehicle to get you to the porn. There's remarkably little content outside the dungeon, which you barely notice at first because of how long the dungeon is and then becomes apparent when you start skipping the dungeon.

A lot of the manor gameplay stuff is atrocious too, and this is immediately apparent. There are all these systems for increasing corruption and such, and from what I could tell none of it actually mattered? The nun for instance apparently had corruption thresholds for all her scenes, but you could meet them by... doing the previous scene, which you had to do anyways. This whole vestigial system hung there which took up a lot of space and yet apparently served no actual purpose.

The art has a fairly distinctive style, and is fine enough, except there are a few scenes (mostly with the dungeon women) which use a completely different style and were a bit jarring as a result. But overall it was fine, and looks how you'd expect it to from the screenshots and the prologue.

There isn't much futa stuff out there, so if you're in the mood for that then Unveiling the Unknown isn't terrible. But overall it mostly felt like a warning against trying to put too much effort into gameplay in RenPY VNs, and while it wasn't bad it's hard to recommend it either. Overall I think it would be improved if half the content were removed or heavily pared down, but there's so much bad filler that it detracts from the experience.

I have a lot of critiques of this game, so before I get into that, I want to say up front that this game is good (hence, 4 stars) and worth playing. That said, I think it could have been significantly better, or at least more honest about what it is.

First, the combat/exploration. This starts out pretty fun, and stays pretty fun for awhile, but wears out its welcome by the time you get toward the end of the game. You can get to a point where you're nearly invincible, and just running through floors pretty mindlessly. You can accumulate a truly mind-boggling amount of resources, and still not be all that close to getting all of the upgrades (in the manor or in the city). I didn't put a ton of thought into my upgrade paths, but I did at least try to make my dungeon runs as long and lucrative as possible for quite awhile, but eventually I stopped, b/c it just got too tedious, and I would just do a few floors and then exit.

One of the reasons I persisted as long as I did in fully committing to the dungeon runs was that I thought it would matter - there'd be a big fight at the end of the game, and I'd want to be as powerful as possible for that. But there's nothing like that. Maybe there are hidden checks for completion rate, or maybe the ending is gated behind not just the Hangouts, but also the other Guidebook stuff, I don't know. But if not, the only real reason to do any of the dungeon stuff is to find the dungeon girls. However, you can see all their content (and get the resources for the scenes with the women at the market and the gym) long before you finish with the Hangouts, and at that point, I don't think there's any reason to keep going into the dungeon.

The problem is that between the Guidebook and the upgrade tree (not to mention what's going on in the story), the game definitely implies that accumulating resources, getting upgrades, and getting stronger matters. I just wish it actually did. That, and I wish that the combat balance didn't deteriorate into "always be able to use all your spells, one shot everything for floor after floor, and eventually run into an enemy you don't one shot and then immediately die (modulo guaranteed evade, life potion, etc.)".

One other thing about the dungeon - there's a boss demon, I think it's called a Fallen, that's really hot. I wish there was content with her

Next, the story/characterization. Mostly this is fine, but there's one big problem, which is that the game seems to offer you the option to either be nice or a jerk, but it doesn't actually give you that choice. If you pick the jerk option every time, not only is the impact minimal, but over time your specific dialogue choices will be drowned out by the dialogue you don't control, and everyone will fawn over how nice and caring and supportive the MC is regardless. It's especially ironic when quite a lot of dialogue is dedicated to bashing the hero for having the same flaws that the jerk dialogue options tend to embody. The "bad" ending is where the game comes closest to letting you be a corrupting influence, but it's very brief and has no impact on any H-content afaict.

To be clear, I don't mind the game not meaningfully having the option to be a jerk, though I'd prefer if it did. I just wish it was honest about that.

The other thing I'd have liked is for things to just move a little more slowly. Not in terms of actual playtime - the game is plenty long with all the time spent in the dungeon. But in terms of how the relationships develop. For the most part, the women just throw themselves at the MC, and while this is justified in context, it still feels a bit underwhelming. I'd prefer if she had to work for it more. This ties into the "being a jerk" stuff, b/c I think it would be interesting to have the option of either seducing them in a more positive fashion, or abusing your power/authority/magic to force the issue.

Next, the art/scenes. The dual nature of the art is weird, but not necessarily a huge problem. I think both styles are good. Something that ties back into the previous points is that I really like how consistently desperate the MC looks in the mdf-an scenes, and I wish that was reflected in the story/characterization. The curse seems much more like a convenient excuse than anything that's particularly affecting her behavior. The renders suggest a level of need that's not reflected in the dialogue.

Anyway, the main issue with the h-content is just that the scenes start to get repetitive at some point, including reusing assets from earlier scenes. In conjunction with how long and tedious the dungeon delving got, this meant I really was rushing to get to the end of the game, in hopes for a payoff to all of the night of the succubus stuff and the option to be a jerk. And that payoff does sort of exist, but it's underwhelming.

So, overall, I think either this game should have committed more to its evil route, and to gameplay/story/h-content integration, or it should have cut down the scope and just been a simpler story about the harem with less extensive gameplay (or even no gameplay).

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention - I do appreciate the little humorous nods found here and there throughout the game, my favorite being when Mirabelle says "I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon" in a context in which it totally makes sense.

I think what matters here is the characters, and they are pretty much well written. The conflict exists within every girls and even the MC, this game wont let u get bored when sinking into a character plot and story. And you, the MC gets to fuck everyone.

The artworks are solid, along with the animation for the mansion girls. I see AI generated artwork for the backgrounds, side girls and unreleased characters, you can see these efforts were made to finish the game. Although that should pose no problem to immersion imo.

Highly recommend, no grind, no bad art, no bad characters, solid game.

Always loved this artists stuff on r34 and then i discovered there's a game full of his stuff. Has a pleasant story, nice h-scenes and a bit of optional grinding if your into that. Has an in game guid e to help find all the content. Ophelia best girl