Ren'Py - Completed - Wartribe Academy [v2.0.3 Public] [Mr.Rooster]

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.

first thing you see when you open the game that it has interesting story. Then it says

"nope you wont see it here is the ugliest models you have ever seen, i made them in 5 minutes have fun"


If you dont have a story to tell and you based your whole game on some characters at least make them pretty or give them any personality.
they are just ugly robots

i wont even get into sex scenes because they are eyes hurting pixelated



overall this game has nothing to offer
no story
no sex scenes
no pretty models

I liked this a lot, even though I'm more into sci-fi than fantasy. The models are truly beautiful, a combination of innocence and seductiveness. I also like their personalities. The music is also nice even though not very varied.
Sex scenes are plenty (and animated) and spelling mistakes few. I loved the idea of being a prince who has the privilege to select his bride(s) out of a collection of young gorgeous suitors. The story is more about getting to know those women, but it never made me wish it would go on faster because the characters were interesting enough.
The biggest downsides for me were the semi-sandbox nature of the game (wish it were a more traditional VN) and the poor cumshots (in a porn game, this is important to me).
Anyway I'm giving it 5 stars based on the enjoyment I personally had. Even though it can't objectively beat games with 10,000$+ budgets, it still has quite a good amount of enjoyable content and the dev undoubtedly deserves support. Give it a go!

This is one of the few games I play to relax and enjoy the plot. The story is well written, the plot is key in the game and the characters and sex scenes are enjoyable as well. So overall a great game in my eyes

Great game, with a somewhat unique setting.
Worth checking out.
One of the better games using honey select and similar engines.
The girls have distinct personalities
The setting & characters makes the game worth playing.

Wartime proved to be an interesting little find. The premise is definitely not something expected and the game shows a great amount of potential, depending on how the developer goes.

The largest thing with the game is how disjointed as of the current build (5.1). Thus certain aspects feel out of sync with one another and different phases of development can easily be seen.

Intriguing story with beautiful girls. Each girl has a different personality and motive wanting to become your wife/queen of your village. You have to speak and do certain acts to learn about each candidate. However, there is one girl that killed your mother and it is also your job to find out which one it is. The story telling is great with proper dialogue between the characters. I'm really excited about this game.

By the way......Magna is my favorite girl

Really cool setting and scenario. Great, varied girls and its good looking too. Just a straight up really good game. All it needs is more content and it will be one of the best.

I'm finding it really hard to pick a best girl which is almost never a problem for me. There are quite a lot of them too, I guess the one concern is that the game sprawls outside what the dev can manage. Let's hope that it dosen't come to that.

Version 3.4

This game has tremendous potential. The dev is very skilled at story writing, dialog writing, and making really great scenes. There were some coding errors but I think the dev will be able to iron them out as he goes on so I don't think that that is a real minus at this early stage of development. The characters in this game are all unique and have very interesting and engaging stories. I definitely think that the game shows a lot of promise and that the dev has both the skill and the talent to make an outstanding game. I am looking forward to seeing this game progress.

Direction wise, I was a bit lost initially. But after getting the hang of the "flow", things went well. Advancing through the plot is straightforward but has very detailed scenes and dialogue. Design is great and the animation is top-tier. Looking forward to updates.

[Rev @ v0.2.3]

Has a lot of potential.

Art's nice; standard kit but new enough and/or custom enough that I haven't seen the models a billion times each.

Writing's alright. Scenario is familiar but no overdone, writing voice is serviceable and fluent, characterization is decently strong.

Nothing in the porn squicked me and there're plenty of teases at kinks that are insta-win for me, so hopefully that pans out. Narrative paths for the girls seem oddly paced and tangled with each other at times but I figure that's easily explained at an early dev stage.

Gameplay's a bit rough. UI could use polish and there're a couple notable logic errors but again; early version.

TLDR: Not perfect, but definitely worth watching and working on. Godspeed~

Despite the game being in the early stages of the development, it shows a lot of potential. The story is interesting and keeps you engaged with the game. The character models look pretty and good and the animations are good as well. The interface design is done well and doesn't disturb the experience.