Collection - Unity - Wanderer: Broken Bed [v0.13] [TopHouse Studio]

I'd like to share my thoughts about this hentai game.

Foreword:
From very beginning, our main hero, or as he's called the "Wanderer", finds himself in another world, where he settles down and makes new acquaintances with main characters of plot.

1) Arts are one of advantages here! For those who like Japanese manga/anime, they willn't remain indifferent, I personally prefer this kind of drawing rather than comics, perhaps developers are in solidarity with me in this matter, therefore they specially draw in this style. Artists & Animators make excellent job <3

2) Gameplay: most of tasks that we perform take place in format where we need to find something in the right place and time, but there are also mini-games that diversify gameplay. Some complain about quests, that it's not clear what conditions need to be taken into account in order to complete them, and at what time of the day to come to the location in order to activate a new quest, this is problem, many newbies can really get confused at the initial stages. Understanding this, devs have written walkthrough, perhaps this will be fixed in future builds. I'd like to see more unique quests and to make it easy clear how to complete them.

3) The plot is now main story is almost absent, the main character falls into another world and that's it. There is a dialogue with prophecy and trip to dungeon where MC receives unique sword. Now there are only side quests, where we learn a little more about secondary characters, about their past (only some) and character, as well as about lore of this world.

4) Bugs since the game is under development, now it's forgivable. Devs are releasing special updates (0.4.7a/0.4.7b, ...) to fix bugs, let's see how game will work on release.

Despite the cons, if devs implement all their ideas, for example: 1. announced dating sim; 2. plus add more mini-games; 3. replay value to gameplay; 4. make quests more understandable; then WANDERER will stand out among other games, I'd give this game a big chance. And recently they have started to release updates frequently, incl. fixing bugs. I'm looking forward to new updates!

August 22, 2024 Review

Wow. The game changed from a broken product with some potential to just a broken product.

The remastering of this game has turned it from its previous playable state to a broken series of background transitions with a broken debug menu.

This is utter garbage, and I pity anyone who financially supported this waste of disk space.

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I do not recommend this game.

The art and writing of the game itself are competently made, and the underlying premise and setting are both clear enough to expand from, but the actual mechanics of playing the game are fundamentally broken.

First problem occurs during the prologue, where I assume a tutorial battle is supposed to take place. Instead, it skips you ahead to after the fact, while characters actively discuss whatever was supposed to happen during the missing event. Coupled with the fact that I have not stumbled into more combat events since, I have to assume the advertised RPG combat component of this game is missing.

The point-and-click elements of the game are not much better. Subjectively, I'm not a fan of the design decision to have scene transitions take time as it encourages savescumming; Instead of wasting time clicking through the different areas, it's better to click through until you find what you need, then load the game and fast travel through the map so you only spend one transition worth of time.

Objectively, the game has too many bugs: The teacher npc in the dining hall has a conversation option that just softlocks the game; The nurse npc has conversation that causes her to leave the scene, but her image remains and is just unresponsive to player input; and most egregiously, I randomly stumbled onto what I assume is the concluding parts of a character quest between two dueling women that I have no context for.

The bugs range from minor to major, but the underlying conclusion is that it's better to just hold off on this until things get fixed.

As of right now i don't really see why you would play this game. it looks good, but other than that it has nothing.
Gameplay is repetitive and boring. Visit 5-7 locations (Game punishes you for not using quick travel (top right)) to see if smth changed. Click on new items. That's it, there is nothing more to gameplay. Sex is unrelated to gameplay at all, you may as well just look up gallery, instead of suffering through fetch quests for like 5-6 quest related scenes.
Quests are boring point and click item hunts (Also one quest has weird requirement, you can find 3 out of 4 items just fine, but to get ability to get 4th item you need to finish unrelated quest)
Ratio of content to gameplay is bad. Spent multiple hours of my life hoping for the game to finally get good only to be disappointed.
Some bugs for example some quests (clear cafeteria) would glitch and not leave dialog, endlessly repeating last line or blank text box.

And finally WORST THING not all tags are relevant to the game (some of them are just for prequel). Who thought of that? Why prequel doesn't have a separate page with relevant tags? Take NTR for exaple, dev in this thread said main game has no NTR (not even planned) so why is there NTR tag? It just fucks with people, if you don't like NTR you will skip this game not knowing it has none, and if you want NTR you just waste your time on this game.

I am a 2DCG fan. Porn games with this tag are minority, so I can make discount when evaluating.

I really liked the models of Cruella, Anastasia, Vanessa and Ameli. I wish these characters will show more often in sex-scenes. I dont likemodels of nurse and Isabella. In general, the graphics in the game are very nice!

The plot of the game is simple. I liked setting and lore of this, but I didnt like dialogues, I think they need to be rewrited. I like Isekai genre, but in this game could have been done better

Iwanna see improvements in UX/UI design of this game cuz some elements made inconveniently for me. I had to collect things all over the map for the sake of minor events...

Overall 4/5. I would like authors to develop game more carefully cuz I see potential here.

I finished playing build 0.4.3 and I can say a few things about Wanderer: I liked the plot and atmosphere of the game, the characters are beautiful, the quests are interesting to complete. Not a lot of nude scenes, and the game is still in development. I like 2d style, especially anime. I hope to see more projects like this on f95. Cruella one love <3

The game left a good impression. Beautiful illustrations, interesting fantasy world and the main thing that's not a VN, there are also some mini-games. The scenes are medium, I want more interactive. I fount some bugs, keep in mind. I hope the developers will fix problems with inventory. Characters have uncommon names ahah. I recommend, but I also hope new updates will release more often.

If this rating system allowed for half points then this review would be a 3.5 instead of a 4, but I'm feeling generous so I'll round up. There isn't much to do in this game as of build 2.0, but the game is obviously in a very early state so I don't hold the lack of content against it. The art looks fantastic and the animations are great as well. The story so far is a bit lacking but I can chalk that up to it just not being fully developed yet (and to my ignorance of the source material that this game is apparently based on/inspired by). The part I took issue with, however, was the writing. It pivots back and forth between decently structured sentences with good diction and feeling like it's been run through google translate once or twice. Additionally, it jarringly jumps from the characters to an unnecessary exposition machine in the form of the "author". Going forward, I'd suggest the dev team look into recruiting a good proof reader to keep the flow and conversational nature of the writing solid. All that said, I am looking forward to more of this.

This game is obviously heavily inspired by Zero no Tsukaima and like Goredan I see it as a plus point. I really liked the anime and wanted to play a game similar to it and now we can with sexy stuff on top which is also a plus point.

The quality of the drawings and the animations is also very high, higher than in most other similar Patreon VNs. Be aware though that this is just a 5 minute prologue demo so far and you can therefore hardly make any judgement how the quality of the game/story develops further. The pictures of scenes you can see in the first post are mostly not even in this version yet, you can`t even talk to characters yet or make decisions (beside a single sex scene where you have the option to run away or let it happen).

Edit: After over 2 years later the game honestly became a mess that has nothing beside its beautiful art left. The original story idea was thrown out the window, the characters are now just hollow whores that have no personality to them whatsoever and don`t even act like normal human beings but cock starved whores that can`t think about anything but sex instead of being just normal women in a school and it is overall a real disappointment. Therefore I change the review from 5 to 2 stars.

I played the build of the game, I was very surprised by the level of animation and backgrounds, in fact, I have not seen such a high level of visual style for a long time, the backgrounds turned out to be very detailed and convey the atmosphere of a real magical fairy tale.

Now everything is crammed with games collected in a daz or on a renpy, with very bad art or 3d evil valley.

The list of games that you are inspired by is simply amazing, no one has ever done adult games with such amazing taste as yours! Continue.

Wow, guys. I understand that you have made a game based on the amazing anime Zero no Tsukaima. Throughout the entire anime, I wanted to see sex scenes, but now I can finally play for the main characters of this anime myself. I hope that you will finish it as soon as possible, and more and more people will support you on patreon.