Ren'Py - Completed - V.I.R.T.U.E.S. [v17] [NoMeme]

Overall, a nice visual novel, but with some weaknesses.
At some points the story is quite nice and you build a relationship with the girls that goes a little deeper. But sometimes it just seems very flat, forced or just random.

The MC always says how educated and " virtuose " he is, but he doesn't act like that. As soon as it comes to sex he is more or less cock controlled. Drunk or not so deal with an inexperienced girl and after the first time just offer money? Yes he comes to his senses afterwards that this was not the smartest thing to do and takes responsibility but still....

As others have pointed out it's pretty grindy and you have to chase all the women to a certain extent -> for example I'm not into MILF content which you have to manually skip (did I miss an option?) otherwise you don't get anywhere.

The quantitative amount of content is quite good - about 9 hours for me, although I also skipped a bit. The texts were well understandable for me, but I can only say little about the mistakes, because English is not my native language.

The quantitative amount of content is quite good - about 9 hours for me, although I also skipped a little bit. The texts were well understandable for me, but I can only say little about the errors, since English is not my native language.

About the character design:
I just have a weakness for girls with white/silver or red/pink hair although the others are also attractive. As mentioned before, I'm less into the MILF content, so Elisa & Lady Minna just fall through for me.
The poses are mostly well chosen.
But I do not understand one thing why so many creators are fixated on huge breasts that are beyond realistic

You ever want to feel like your reading MTL without MTL? Here you go.

All told its not an awful game, its grindy sure, but so are a lot of sandbox games, and the inconcsistent English.
You'll have Ow for OH and Ow for Ouch used interchangeably, which is one of the more minor issues that just can outright change the context of a scene.

The protagonist is also kinda just annoying, he speaks highly of his virtue, but is down to fuck a drunk chick and take advantage of a chick who knows little to nothing about sex.
You can't have a 'moral' character that constantly does immoral things and then is just like 'oops'

This game definitely needed an editor and probably a protagonist with a different moral structure.

That aside it is nice that you can unlock the endings and view them or other subplots again from your room, which is something not many games I've seen have thought of.

The models are fine, but the girls definitely don't feel like they were given an equal chance and there are clear favorites.

You can play it, and can generally grasp whats being said, but dev really needs to go back and edit the broken English, make the PC more consistent, and give reason to unlocking the trainings and such beyond just to see the same event again.

good game despite being a 'japanese harem game' with too much focus on big tits, that is not something bad but variety would be better and girls talking about being conquered in the middle of sex sometimes, some of the content didnt get finished and i would like more harem/pregnancy but is very much worth playing

The start is a little rough, I sometimes had the feeling the MC was somewhat mentally unstable, becouse one day he would seem to be a spineless virgin, the next day a dominant man, the third day he'll stammer and stutter becouse someone mentioned boobs and the fourth day he'll grab a girl by the throat and fuck her roughly.
Luckily it does get better, untill he settles into a somewhat simpy dominance, you know, the type who'll dominate a girl and then apologise profusely when it's over.
Not a bad personality type, but not ideal for me either.
Regardless, as soon as things start getting more serious with the girls is when the game really picks up, the scenes are great and the story is good. Just remember it takes a little while to get there.

Beautiful renders, It doesn't happen very often when I get attached to a character like I did with Theo who's really hit everything I like in a Main female character. First time I've played a harem game where I actually felt more like just staying with one

Great story along with a great cast of characters. However, since all models were made in honey select, I can't give the dev too much praise on that side. The UI was amazing but I hoped this game would be made in an engine other than renpy because it lagged at mostly every moment, and it wasn't a PC issue. The sandbox aspect was also amazing, however, the game felt a bit "fetishy" at some points considering the master-slave stuff and the whole harem with one master stuff, but that was fine since thats the kind of game this is. The grammar and spellchecking needs to immensly worked if the dev is working on another one after this and maybe get a native english speaker to help with the writing and language. But other than that, great game. 10/10. Enjoyed it alot and didn't get bored.

This game has bad graphics and poor details. There is a lot of women but they are not so attractive. The story is a bit strange (probably because the harem setting). The gameplay is between average and poor.

one of the best 3dcg games I've played with a great story

ART : 9.5/10 - Very good art , for the characters . Maybe even the best as far as I've seen

Story : 9/10 - Nice story , everything was pretty reasonable as to no girl falling for the sake of it like that

Characters 9/10 : great characters and have nice traits

Overall 9/10 : Overall the game is Excellent , anyone can give it a try and enjoy playing it

All i can say is that this game is not perfect, yet it is one of the greatest games ever.

Maybe one of the things i like the most about this game is that it has a fairly realistic way for a man to make a Harem. Not just corrupting girls minds by force like mind control, blackmailing, or r4p3 (kinda pathetic tbh),. You've got to earn your Harem

If i had to give a suggestion, this game is a bit lacking in "sickness" elements, at least for my taste. Also the ending is...rather predictable and anti-climactic. The rest, i'm satisfied.

The game is really good.
Nice, story, hot models. Pretty good animations.
It has only one big downside. It's too grindy.
Each girl has a love meter and about each 10 love points the plot with the girl continues. During the farming these 10 points each time, you have to repeat one action all over again.
During to the count of content that you get, I found the grind a complete waste of time. Dev could reduce the love points in at least a half and the game would be still pretty long.

Mostly a re-hash of what others have said:
* Too grindy- I feel like this could have been toned down by making a lot of the plot scenes/interact scenes advance affection, or some of the scenes with multiple characters will only advance it for one character. I reached a point that I don't care anymore especially considering....
* Incomplete- Seems that there is a scene that can completely kill being able to complete the game. Chose an option that avoided a scene I didn't care for (Femdom) and didn't realize it had locked me out till I'd overwritten my saves from before it.
* Rachel tacked on- You can't even really do anything with Rachel until you're almost done with several other characters.

What's there can be decent at times but at this point the whole thing doesn't really seem worth it.

V.I.R.T.U.E.S. [v17] [NoMeme]
A good game that I recommend.

+
Great character models, one of the best character (aesthetic) games I've played.
Different endings, excellent characterization, good animations.

-
Story of certain characters too long (some dialogues are really useless).
Sound effects but no character voice. This is too weird, I would have preferred no effects at this point. It's not the first game with such a structure, but only this has bothered me.
Less gameplay than expected. The picture with the map mislead me. The game is "look where the map indicates to go and read".

The training/affection system is a little clunky and awkward. For some reason the training is also locked behind the affection which I guess is fine but then why even have different stats at all? I feel like training should go up from training and affection should stay how it is. There's also no real progression to the training as far as I can tell, once you unlock a scene it never changes it is just the same thing every time. It would be nice if there were some actual progression there.

The H scenes are decent but there's not enough anal content in my opinion even though it would fit really well. The only character that even does anal stops after a certain point which is extra sad. There's also a huge focus on big boobs and only one girl even has somewhat smaller ones (that are still pretty big). When you have seven girls in a harem why not have more variety? But that is ultimately a minor nitpick.

The dialogue is alright, it's passable but there are a ton of spelling and grammar mistakes all over the place, it does get pretty distracting. Some of the writing is also really stiff or straightforward, it lacks any kind of nuance. It is good enough for a porn game but there are definitely a lot of other games on F95 that have much better writing.

I also don't get why this is marked as completed when it is definitely not finished. Some of the girls have story lines that get cut off with no actual ending. There is so much potential here but the game really falls short in a lot of areas.

I was so excited for this one, and it started out great, but the grind is real, and it was a struggle to finish. Also, not a completed game.

The Good

IRENE! By far the best part of this game. A schoolgirl, a buttslut, and a Neko, all in one.
Game is worth playing just for her, but barely.
Even with the smallest boobs, she is still well over a DD, which is a bummer, but doesn't completely ruin her. Until late game when she gets giant Fun bags like everyone else.
It's a pretty solid harem game, even if a lot of stuff doesn't feel finished.
Girls are pretty and some of the lewd scenes are good.
The harem acceptance scenes and the girls interactions with each other are pretty fun for the most part.
MC isn't super ugly or awkward, though some of the Dom scenes are a bit excessive.

The Not so Good

Too many giant Fun bags. I get that the Dev loves giant tatas but using those exclusively at the cost of anything else, is pretty disappointing and shortsighted.
Basic animations and little else. Not enough penetration or BJ animations.
Weird ass sounds in the lewd scenes. Some kind of clapping is all we get. No voice work (heavy breathing, sexy moans, voiced orgasms), which is what most folks want to hear in sexy time.
It's very strange and quite disappointing. It's strangely disappointing.
Lots of other HS games have quite good sounds in the lewds.
Rachel is basically a throw away character, with little story and zero good solo scenes. I don't know if the Dev doesn't like dark skinned girls, or she got lots of hate from the Patrons, but she shouldn't really be in the game at all. Waste of time with her.
Senning and Vera are also pretty neglected in their stories and endings, having much less content than the other girls. Shame, cause after Irene, Senning had lots of potential. Really bummed the game was almost over before she lost her virginity.
Not enough Anal scenes, and very little anal penetration shown. The MC has a sex dungeon, and trains his ladies but skips the anal training with most all of them. Irene started out very promising, but once she got the D, she lost interest in anal as well. Big bummer.
The grind is real. Get lots of sexy time by the end of the game, but the grind to get there, and the non-intercourse scenes being so lackluster, makes it quite tedious.

Overall worth a play for harem lovers, as there are not a lot of good harem games out there. It just could have been so much better.

[v17]
Good game. Great if you like male dom stuff.

- Nice selection of great looking girls, great looking renders.
- H-scenes have animation. Plenty of ahegao moments.
- One of the girls (Rachel) feels tacked on (barely any content). She's the sport girl archtype tho, so depends on who you ask no love lost there.
- Not much in term of story, you go from one sexy situation to the next.
- Gameplay: you have a world map with locations you can click on to meet girls and increase affection points with them. Every 5 affection points grant you access to new scenes. When the girls show up can be quite random. Which can be an annoyance especially during the later part of game where you need to rack up points for harem endings.

Great game. Pluses:
1. Proper hint system, as in, if there is an event, put a red dot, or heart when and where it takes place.
2. After leveling up the girls, you can barely keep up with the new events.
3. Different endings and paths to take.
4. Models look good despite being made with now outdated tools.
5. The game wasn't abandoned before it became interesting, as may games here are.

If I were the developer, I would have done one more update, to finish Rachel's path. Also, one could add more events to the pool and the dungeon.

V.I.R.T.U.E.S is simply a benchmark and a guide on how to make a good harem and sand-box game.
I think NoMeme has done a great job, and it's a game that you can criticize some things (like not having finished Rachel's route or that once you reach a certain level, what comes next are sex scenes one after another and after another...) but damn, what a game!
It has achieved what many other games (with MUCH worse quality of the renders) do not come close to achieve: a decent character that corrupts without being edgy, an entertaining story and that engages more than just being a bridge to the hot scenes, and above all, it does not become boring to earn points from the girls.
For me, and I think that I agree with the rest, it's a 9/10 with no doubt

[Rev @ V.I.R.T.U.E.S. [v17]

Pretty alright but runs out of steam at the end.

Art's nice, tits are well done and the girls' proportions are only overblown in the ways I like.

Writing is fine. Scenario's a tad uninspired, the supposed narrative is not really compelling or driving gameplay. Characters are fine.

Porn's nice, but I like multi-girl group stuff too much so reader results may vary. I would have preferred more interaction between the girls to make the harem more believable.

I dislike the faux-sandbox presentation. It isn't too terribly noticeable early on, but if one plays on the harem route popups start telling you to house your Prince in a different girl's castle. If you're gonna become strictly linear at that point, just make it one scene so I can Skip Dialog my way to the tits.

TLDR: Yay boobies.

"Complete" tag is just because the dev doesn't want to/can't finish.
One character can't be progressed, and has no ending.

Writing is in dire need of gramatical and tonal edits. Feels sometines that it was written by a young teen or an ESL speaker, which isn't a dig at the dev, just something that could be significantly improved.

Story itself is decent, but feels very fast toward the end.

The characters fit very nicely into cliched roles, and could use a little more fleshing out, and the best written character is unfortunately the one who was never finished.

Big opportunity missed for story telling here with the twist at the end of the prologue having absolutely zero impact because of the way earning money works in the game.

Virtues realies heavily on the sandbox harem simulator trope. Meaning there'll be lots of little 'grinds' with plenty of events and dialogues that serve as bloaters. Some of these are nice and interesting, but a good chunk of them are just cringe, weeby and plays into superficial tropes like typical whiteknighting.

While the art and animations are on a high level, the fact that the women are just hard-coded to like MC is making them bland and superficial. Sure they've got unique stories but they don't have any choices, just railroaded into liking a meh-MC where nothing is challenged and therefore you cannot feel any true gain with this game - because there are no risks to it.

Some might like that. It's light-hearted (for the most part) and you're always certain of the rewards. But it's dull and doesn't satisfy any deeper craving. So, good game, but don't look too deep under the hood unless you love weeby scenarios.