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

V.I.R.T.U.E.S. [v16] review

What it is:
VN with Pointless linear-sandbox gameplay and highly unrealistic characters and scenarios.

Positives:
+ Cool renders, I guess.

Negatives:
- Bimbo titties. Not my thing. There's only 1 character with decent proportions who i really felt was attractive (Irene).
- But then it turns out my only hope for a good time (Irene) was a butt slut from the start, despite having no sexual experience. I'm not particularily interested in anal, and I don't believe in the "oh but I'm a virgin, let's do it in the butt instead" -trope. So there goes my only hope. What an awfully written character. There was a good opportunity for some corruption or a cute puppy-love story here that was completely missed by the writer of this story.
- Awful take on Grind. In this game the grind consists of talking to the girls and doing small mundane events with them, like visiting them at work or at school. That felt very simp:y and pointless to me and made me activate "skip unread text" pretty early on so I could just skip through all of it.
- Random progression. Who you progress with and why is just completely random if you do what any sensible person would do and just click on the events that are available on your screen. What's the point of this?
- No overarching story. Things just happen for no discenable reason.
- Linear & Illusion of choice. By the end of the story every playthrough will pretty much be the same. The only things you can change are which scripted ending you're getting and in which order you do all the events. This just defeats the entire purpose of having a sandbox world.

All in all, I can maybe recommend this game if you are very very bored and you're super into MILFs and giant titties. If what you're looking for is decent writing with believable characters and scenarios then it's a hard pass.

Review for v.16 (not officially complete, though it seems to be in terms of existing contents)

I usually don't have high hopes for sandbox Ren'Pys because the majority of them is just constant grind and the lack of immersion. Yet oh boy V.I.R.T.U.E.S never ceases to surprise me.

What amazes me is that it doesn't take itself seriously in terms of being a harem simulator: your goal is to conquer seven hot ladies simultaneously using only your charm (and of course your big dick energy), so no drugs, no corruption, no supernatural elements like mind control, just a simple polygamous love conquest.

But on the other hand, it takes itself seriously in order to elevate players' feelings: first of all, character models are absolute stunning (sucker for big boobs what can I say). Each MG has her own unique personality that separates the others and somehow manages to captivate player's attention simultaneously, though I admit the character arcs of some MGs are absolutely better than others (my personal rank: Theodora the ice queen>=Vera the diligent housewife>=Elisa the horny MILF>=Senning the innocent foreigner>=Irene the jealous sister>=Uno the insatiable nympho>=Rachel the naive athelete, Rachel's character development is quite terrible imo). Secondly, each character's story and the special events are very intersting to watch, which greatly reduces the fatigue we usually get when playing sandbox adult games. Last but not least, lewd scenes are not only serve as fap materials but as part of the development of our relationship of MGs, and the Love Points and Harem Acceptance system is mostly capable of maintaining our expectations.

Overall a pretty decent and solid harem game, if you are a harem lover this is certainly a must play for you. Though I'm gonna stick to the base game without touching any of the "what if"s extras (my personal gaming experience tells me they're mostly anything but wholesome genres.

1) Srory and writing are smooth and satisfying. (+)
2) All characters are beauties, Character personalyties are also quite interesting. Tsundere lovers can be totally happy. (+)
3) Sex scenes are good and there are a lot of them. (+)
4) V16 is not final version, but it can be called a finished game with great amount of content. (+)
5) Sandbox... looks a bit under worked, but still ok. Repeating scenes are not bad. Comfortable farming, walkthrough is not needed, Just collect endings in your own rhythm. (+)

Game is quite relaxing, as is intended for harem and have some interesting plots. Worth a try for harem lovers...

" enjoy the feeling of developing your harem ", says the description. And oh boy, did I enjoy that.

This is the best "harem building game" I've come across. Fantastic art and animation, engaging gameplay and very good story. The way relationships develop with the girls is very well crafted and the lewd scenes progress very nicely.

The variety of characters is a real treat and all of them are simply incredible.

A real masterpiece.

A well-designed harem game with character development, standard porn progression and gameplay. The sandbox-lite system is just enough to make you feel immersed in the world without it being a drag on actually getting to the content.

Gotta emphasize that the characters are competently written and expertly pander to the cis-straight male. I also think the writer gets better at writing over time, the later parts of the game are noticeably more evocative and interesting than the earlier parts.

Cons:

A bit of grind to see the scenes.

A lot of the writing and cultural aspects of the game are visibly Chinese. Though most characters are supposed to be Western, they are written in such a way that they end up displaying Chinese attributes that may seem odd, but it's a minor thing.

The writing is just enough to convey the characters and develop them to a satisfactory point, but I personally prefer writing that's just a bit more thorough than that with more internal thoughts.

Towards the end the sex becomes a checklist of girl combinations and positions and the story to get into each scene falls away into nothingless. The beginning had drama, but the end is just sex sex sex.

This game is a mix between amazing and horrible. I wanted to enjoy it more but them flaws...

Good stuff
1) A few of the women are hot af with likable personalities.
2) Some steamy sex scenes with solid writing.
3) Protagonist looks fine, has a good sized cock, isn't a midget and is competent.
4) Multiple endings.

Bad stuff
1) Fake choices. Choices usually only affect the order you view content.
2) Gated content. You can't focus on only one or two women. You will have to also pursue the other women to progress.
3) The grind. Encounter character that randomly spawns on map 5 times to level up love stat to progress story. Rinse & repeat. Then encounter harem events that randomly spawn on map to level up up harem stat to progress story and unlock endings.
4) Forced fetishes with illusion of choice. You'll have to choose them all to progress the story. Choice only affects order you see them.

Very good game, models are very hot, animation and renders are almost at the top and a good plot.
too bad the sandbox gameplay sometimes is boring, i would appreciate a VN gameplay. Anyway Theodora and Elisa are very good characters

Only good thing are renders
The grind to unlock a event is slow
Not only that there is a stat called harem acceptance that locks harem scenes until this stat is high enough
You have no idea if the harem acceptance stat is high enough so you can rewatch the event but this time pick the harem choiche in the gallery
the money stat is confusing
Tried save editor could not vind value Tried console commands checking all values but still nothing
Money is even useless supposed to be for revenue and expense
You can buy wallpaper at the fortune teller with money wich i think is useless
Irene looks cute but her character is just a girl obsessed with mc

Terrible game. It's just grind, grind, grind and grind some more to get to the sex scene after many "somerandomsexact"job only to end up with girl getting scared and rejecting having sex once more. Worse, sex scenes are animated poorly and you can't see penetration, just the humping.

You can't reject girls either. I hate Theodora, she's a bitch to MC and only use her as a bodyguard, almost half of her content is just you standing there while other guys hit on her. I don't care about her sobby story and redemption arc. MC is dense and not assertive at all.

Actually, a really good game to play! Enjoyed it! Hope i will come back here in some years and play again.
Version: 0.15
Script: 6/10
Gaming experience: 4/10
Graphic quality: 6/10
Character development: 7/10
Horny: 8/10

Amazing models and phenomenal roleplaying + storytelling, what more can you ask for? I love this type of game setup where you can easily replay scenes via the gallery etc. please continue to update this and we thank you!!!!!

I kinda pessimist at first to play this game coz i thought the game gonna make me do hard grinding (i prefer RenPy/VN type game).
Turn out it not that bad, and now i'm so hooked to this game (will be waiting for the next update with great anticipation).
I really love all the character (Theodora is my fav) and i play the bonus chapter about Theodora, and i never tired to replay the bonus chapter.

I hope this game will be great with each update
keep up the good work sir

I love the scenes and characters. It's full of sexy content constantly and is a sandbox that doesn't feel full of nothing. The separate episodic prequel game is great too if you like this. Highly recommend.

It's one of the few games I get really excited about when I see a new release for it.

Beautiful girls with diverse variety and somewhat good "story". I recommend the side stories especially the Theo. The gameplay kinda simple. Feels like those point and click adventure. I wonder if the BnB business will be expanded in the future

Underrated game, ticks most of the boxes (male protag, romance, sex, harem, great animations, pregnancy), and the sandbox tag is only scary to look at but none of the grinding shit makes it more enticing. Each character has unique storyline and personality and all are very much likeable so dive in and enjoy.

Man, I really love this game. I never have a girlfriend, but I had crushes. Anyway they are married/taken. My heart is broken for many times. In the past,I really wanted to have a relationship. I will wait for my true love. But now I'll continue playing. Thanks you for making this game.

You are playing a college student but your brain is of a 10 year old. Customary to these games, you come from a rich family and all the girls are waiting for you but please go through this eternal grind because if the dev gives you money , then he has to develop mc having sex with the girls but that is not what we are here for, right ? at the end what is this, a porn game?

Instead please do all kinds of boring activities but promise in the future you can get a hand job at some point. At the end this game is only 2 years old.

So please click million times and read brain dead character interaction before you see a semi naked girl but if you make them love you maybe you will get a kiss.

2 star is for the graphics, game play would be easily one. Snooze fest.

This game is master piece for me
Nice developer,nice art,character model,gameplay and the story is fking good and wholesome
If u want to chilling after worked hard then download it.Trust me,u won't regret it

Fair disclosure I haven't finished it but played maybe 2/3 hours or so. Decent enough game so far, there's some promising content and some interactions are fun, if you're looking for sex scenes it is a pretty long grind to get there, I've only gotten to the "girlfriend/only sex" choice with one character (tho close with the others, I spread attention between girls).

The actual content scenes are generally alright, but to get to them you need to repeat maybe 3/4 repetitive, minimally written scenes 5 times and then wait for a special event to show up with that character, it wouldn't be too bad but as far as I can tell there are no meaningful changes to the scenes in 25 runs of them... so that's great.

Also, it gets real fucking rapey with not much warning. One character you get drunk (mc is drunk at the same time) and then fuck them, and when they pass out mc keeps going with no regard for them. There's a bunch of "character sleeping touch boobs which is pretty standard affair for these kinda games, but the one that caught me most off guard was with one character who mc has caught in some questionable situations before (mc sneaks into a room for ??? reasons and end up catching them doing a cam show kinda thing), but then due to plot they end up moving into the house mc owns and then in response to them trying to blackmail mc with some stuff (after mc was rapey to them 5 seconds earlier) mc pins them against a wall and basically threatens to rape them.

I dunno, there's some stuff in the game that's pretty good, but porn contenet takes a while to get to unless you beeline a particular character (which kinda goes against the idea of a harem game) and then when you get to it the mc is being really rapey to the characters even in cases where you supposedly "love" the girl

5 stars for the character and H-scene, fun to play with.
the story feels flat and nothing exciting just like my daily life, the conversation also feels flat, lack of comedic things. the only competitor is the harem hotel.