Ren'Py - Wartribe Academy [v1.9.6 Public] [Mr.Rooster]

So I thought the sandbox would be annoying but it actually wasn't it really didn't feel sandboxy at all, I like all the characters, each have their own personality, Mr rooster is doing a good job, can't sub to patreon because I'm getting heat for all my subscriptions at the moment but I'll donate to you on there when I got a bit more disposable income definitely deserve it

v1.2.1:

11/10 game really enjoyable, one of the best

Renders and animations are really great.
Story and writing is also really great.

Anybody apprehensive about playing this game, should play, it is a really great harem game, with so many girls like so many and every girl with different and unique personality and unique situations with mc.

Really a tremendous job done by the dev MrRooster in terms of content.

I had doubts about branching too, but so far playing the game and dev's comments, it's clear that it just changes the short term story only, not the sex scenes (of course leaving immediate scenes after choice) or ending.

Can't recommends this game enough to others to play.

I really like this game. The writing is good, the girls are hot and plot is really interesting.

The dev has put really a lot of work into this game. There are a lot of render scenes too.

I am defenetly enjoying playing this game!

Sure, the 3D renders are quite good and so are the sex animations. You'll also find a great variety of scenarios, in a manner that caters to many niches.

However, what makes it 5 stars is the writing. It's genuinely funny and clever at times, with some political intrigue in the background. Most impressive though is the restraint, as it neither bombards you with text nor does it leave characters feel totally flat tropes. Highly recommended.

This is fantastic.
The art is amazing, with high quality animation. Vastly superior to the typical honey select stuff you see here
The girls are great, and the story is straight and to the point.
No grinding.

This is well written VN that's honestly bogged down by the free roam part of the game and the lack of polish.

The free roam ends up making the game's pacing odd. Almost to the point it doesn't need actually need to be there. It's very strange to get short scenes while clicking on the same place over and over.

While it does add some flair given the plot, it definitely could benefit from being fleshed out. I know, I know, not everyone likes free roaming, but this game definitely could benefit from a thoughtful use of it.

Time doesn't feel consistent as a result. I don't *feel* the overall pacing of things happening, and the characters as a result are mostly disconnected from each other's character plots.

This isn't always true, but these girls probably would be interacting a lot more. Or at least their families.

This game could benefit from is an overall UI polish. Something that really makes the game snap, and look different. The girl at the very start is also very different from the rest of the game. Animation quality and all.

And if I'm allowed to be a little whiney, the h scenes could use some length and spice. Give them some oomph.

Despite all that oddity, this game is really well written. These girls are fabulous, and the lore has depth. Each family is distinct and has it's own goals. You definitely feel like you're moving through a world that's been lived in.

Sometimes you get that porn style side character that's DTF immediately, other times you get side characters that you're excited to see more of. Having both is pretty fun.

The best parts are when the game is like "we're going on a short adventure, buddy" I'm like "hell yeah" because it's honestly really fun to see how things play out thanks to your choices (which seriously matter.).

In the end, it's dope enough to really make you care for this girls, who all have very interesting backstories thanks to the premise. Some are so different, they legit stand far out from other harem games.

This is one of those "hidden gems"/"diamonds in the rough" games. Where the rough isn't really *that* rough. I just wanted to be constructive.

I'm a lil late to my usual ".07 review thing" with this one. And I'm not sure about the last time I played it, but I like this one. I haven't finished all the way to the end of content yet. KEYWORD "yet." Meaning not only am I going to finish it, but I've made up my mind about it.

You start out talking to some goddess lady that probably won't have real story bits until later. I do know that opening bit is newer at least. But then a scene about a lady getting attacked by soldiers and her guard running away. One of my complaints starts here in the opening scene. The writing and dialog go by too fast. Like the characters go from idea to idea almost mid sentence. And there's never a lot of build up. I dunno, just a grip of mine. I'll always be a slow burn type. Anyway. You wake up, as Prince [MC Name Here] a super strong, attractive, and depending on some choices, super smart barbarian prince in a fictional country. And you have to find the answers to your moms death. All while finding a wife at the wartribe academy. Your suitors, or whatever the possible female version of that word might be, are childhood friend, warrior princess, smart naive princess, shy ostracized princess, and spoiled lesbian princess. To start. As the game progresses there's a few times people start saying "well you can take multiple wives." And all of their families are suspect to moms murder. And right after the start the story mostly takes a back seat to you dating the girls and any other girl that isn't made of grey matter.

My only other gripe is the animations. Most of them are stock and the few that aren't are very distracting. Namely the groping. That aside when the writing doesn't glaze over a multitude of possible emotions in two lines, it's not half bad. It's not shakespeare but I didn't hold CTRL through it which is saying something. Also it made me KEEP A SAVE POINT AT A COUPLE CHOICES. As in I'm actually curious about what happens due to choices I made. What a concept. Choices that aren't (but still kinda are) "Do you want to see the following sex scene?" That's one of the good things about this one.

TLDR; Not bad Dev just needs to elaborate on ideas a bit more. And I'm wasting my breath with this by now but please stop using the default RenPy UI. Please.

Liked this game the first time I played it and it was between 4-5. Then when I should go on with this upgrade it didn't make me feel the same. The renders and the sex is OK, but there is something in the way to play that doesn't feel right for me. Sorry!

I played this one all the way through as I sorta got hooked on all the political intrigue and how each girl is involved. This is one is definitely worth reading and exploring. The characters are great and the each main girl is definitely unique (also hot).

My only 3 gripes is that the sandbox stuff is not at all fleshed out. Which is great for anyone who doesn't really like sandboxes. I don't think it's worth addressing given how much content there is already. But that's just a personal gripe.

The next gripe is that the sex scenes are rather short and typically just one position. It'd be nice if they could be a little longer in general.

Final gripe is that the gallery doesn't include the dialog. While it's a simple remedy of just saving each scene individually, I didn't think to do it as there was a gallery.

Other than that, this game has fantastic main girls with really unique attributes. The lore is really fun to get into. The major families are well defined and make a huge difference in how the game plays out.

The side characters range from being ezpz conquest to being very well fleshed out. It's a great mixture.

Mr. Rooster doing to serious quality work here.

Criminally underrated game, much better than many other more popular games here. Plenty of content so far, all the girls are really attractive with actual distinct different looks and personalities as well as interesting story lines. With some UI and QoL polishing this could easily be GOAT tier, exciting to see what comes next.

Incredibly underated gem that somehow manages to fly under the radar. The models for girls are great and the author manages to blend good plot with good *plot*. Probably the best part of this game is that its not afraid to have every girl it shows you (other than Cleo's mom which I'm salty about) have a scene with the MC. A lot of adult games have really good looking girls that never actually have scenes, this one basically only shows a girl if they will have a scene later... and there are a lot of girls.

This is a well rounded story that makes the harem aspect seem trivial to the main goal of the MC. Yes, there is sex, but it is secondary to a series of plots that make you want to come back for more with each update. This is worth playing if a person is looking for an actual story and not some porn parody.

Very good game. I find the story interesting and I really like the characters in it. I honestly think this game is highly under-rated. I usually am not a fan of Sandbox games, but I am fine with it in this one! Good luck to the dev!

Very nice renders with interesting branches to choose from. Best part is that one can opt fast mode rather than the normal sandbox (Interesting concept rarely other explore such way. Kudos!) Looking forward to more from this developer

This game has the makings of all things good that you can find here.

The girls are varied in their personality, hair colors and looks, not as much body type, but they look pretty good all in all.

The game has amazing world building and pay quite alot of attention to it's lore, which isn't just any old, repetitive story you find in most adult games. The political situation is cleverly constructed, and each of the family's investment in wanting to marry into the MC's tribe is believable.

The UI is easy to understand but could use a home button imo. The developer also seems to know what players want by including a in-game hint system, as well as the fast-travel system that helps players save time mucking around the entire map if they so feel like it.

So why only 4 stars? By my usual standard, this would be an non-negotiable 5 star game. I only bother reviews for games I actually like anyway.

The game has vast potential, but imho that's very much shackled by the fact that each girl has 2 routes, and in a sandbox dating-sim, that's a no-no for me. Since it's teased that there's at least 8 girls, that's alot of save points to manage and keep track of.

Though I understand there are players who actually enjoy "choices that matter" and multiple routes in games. As a completionist I personally dislike the feeling of missing out.

Granted, some choices, like the fork in Rhea's story, is pretty interesting since it focuses on how you choose to approach the situation when it comes to "courting" the girl. But there's also choices in other girls' story where you have to choose one or the other, and it simply feels bad to have to lock out the other girl by choosing one, even if they may just be side characters.

A VN with maybe 3-4 routes encourages multiple playthrough, since the fork is in the story, and not with the characters. But when you have progression in 1 character's story and make a lasting decision, even if you have a save, the other character's story does not move.

This makes playing multiple times in sandboxes very unintuitive and tedious to say the least. It's manageable now, because the forks are just beginning and there's decent but not too much content for a 0.9. But if there's any chances of crossover between the girls' story progression, eg: needing to be at least lvl7 of Magna story to play lvl7 of Cleo's, certain "lasting choices" begin to seem foolish, and maybe meaning even more lock out scenarios.

I really enjoyed this game, but honestly, still undecided if I want to keep track of updates and eventually revisit it. Some point down the line the effort of keeping up multiple saves will outweigh the enjoyment of playing.

But all in all, there's still plenty of good points in this for me to recommend it to other players who enjoys this genre of game and either don't mind not unlocking all scenes, or don't mind replaying multiple times with multiple save points.

I would say you should give it a try before writing it off, if you're on the fence on trying out this one.

review based on 0.9.1 Public version
this game no tag "sandbox", but have such kind of gameplay, so ill review both gameplay- sandbox and novell
PRO:
- good cg (some pics have flaws)
- good amount animations presents
- end_of_content marked
CONS:
- sandbox part is terrible- no ui here, most location iteractions via text menu, "hub location" is empty (4 sublocation with text menu). if i ll compare to other sandbox games- this game worse than 90% .
- choices. near 95% dialog choices here- useles, i mean- most choices have no result (pair text strings not count), most of remaining 5%- "skip scene".
- renders... my eye was bleedin when i saw Velvets swimsuit, towels on main screen(!). in some scenes in pics sequence randomly alteres w/o any reason light, background elements like brushes etc.
- animations... they have lag before playing. also in many animations picant areas hidden under text. also in some animations picant areas out of screen or sliced by screen border.
- code... ok, it works, but my eye twitchin if i see something like that:
menu:
"lalala"
jump label4
"lalala2"
jump label4
label label4:
"lalalala"

this game is great illustracion when dev try to make game contained 2 different type gameplays... and they failed, cuz gameplay is worst in comparsion 90% games of each genre.

This is a power fantasy where MC has basically everything, he's a prince, every girl falls in love with him, no one is jealous, etc. Not much struggle for the MC, but he gets to work on others' problems, gets into some stories.
Plot and writing are simple and to the point. MC has an agenda to find out who killed his mother, but it's not focused on much at the moment.

There's a decent amount of content with main and side girls at this point. Environments are unique and add to the immersion and worldbuilding of the game.
Most main girls' stories branch out into 2 routes with different content. These branches are not far along for now, though.
Sandbox is well done and simple, there's some basic navigation and no annoyances. Fast travel to scenes with main girls is available, but it's not implemented for side girls/content.

The visuals are good, there are many animations in H scenes.
There's an in-game walkthrough enabled for most choices in the game, consequences are telegraphed and clear. Some choices don't have a walkthrough and require selecting correct things to increase relationships with girls, but they are pretty obvious.

Overall, it's an enjoyable game with a unique world, decent characters, good H scenes with main and side girls.

As soon as it begins, you feel that you have entered a beautiful and magical world. Each girl is distinct. The situations are interesting. This is already a marvelous game, and as it develops further, it could be one of the very, very best.

I especially liked this game among many similar ones, I would like more content, I hope the author will develop the game for a very long time, in the end it will be a sweetie, thank you very much. Want more content with Magna and Cleo.

I rate this game at 4 stars and here is why:

Story
The story obviously sets the player up for an easy Harem experience. There is more to it than that though. The main girls you are dealing with each have their own personality, which go from the childhood friend over the „what is this sex, you are Talking about?“ to the „I‘m getting out of here the next chance I get“. Each girl has their own story you can explore independently and as far as I got in the game it‘s not necessary to interact with them. Though you do miss out on content if you don‘t.
There is also a bit more Lore to the world you find yourself in, where each princess is coming from a different background. You can choose to read it or skip most of it entirely. It‘s interesting enough for me to read it and understand more of the characters. Also because it‘s not some super cringey world building or anything.

Renders
The renders are good in my opinion. Sometimes the scenes seem a bit empty, but it‘s not too bad and it can generally overlooked as the focus is usually elsewhere. The girls look nice and have a variety of body types, so something for everyone. Another thing that surprised me, most of the characters you meet you will likely get to have sex with. Atleast from the feeling I get.

Playability
At the start of the game you are offered to play in „Fast Travel“ mode or in „free roam“ mode. Fast Travel is supposedly like the classic visual novel experience where you are transported from scene to scene, where free roam mode allows you to explore areas yourself, giving you options at each location. This is the mode that I played and it features a variety of locations in addition to a world map. You visit locations and get different options which may or may not include girls. The world map itself is of good quality and doesn‘t give you the impression of a half empty world. A few locations are already available and I get the feeling that a few more might be added.
Some choices in the game are color coded. Yellow for a decision with bigger impact, that may influence future content (I think) and green for a sex scene. Additionally the game warns you when you get to a section with choices that influence the relationship more heavily than usual, which is a very nice feature. A walkthrough is not required in my opinion as answers are pretty obvious and can be rolled back easily just in case.

Animations
The sex scenes are animated and with a good quality at that. Though one negative thing is that some scenes don‘t have a visible Happy End for the MC, which is a bit disappointing as it is only implied.

Bugs
I haven’t encountered any bugs during my playtime.

Amount of content
There is already a surprising amount of content. Also for girls I didn‘t expect which is very satisfying. Due to the game featuring a lot of characters though, not every update might add content for the characters you like.

To summarize:
Story is compelling to read and is a good tool to deliver the sex scenes. Characters don‘t feel bland and have their own little stories to tell. Renders are good but some could do with a rework. Sex scenes should feature a Happy End for the MC.
This earns the game a solid 4 stars and I am eagerly awaiting each update. Good work so far.