Others - Abandoned - Ways of Life [v0.88] [RALX Games Productions]

terrible game, engime, story, clone characters, and a scum of dev. I'd rather play og big brother than this piece of garbage made by a confess criminal. People should actually destroy this man's life, but wtv eh?

For obvious spyware installing, paywall on a hot pile of garbage game and shit eating dev. Might as well stay away. And for those that might say that he removed it cause of the backlash, remember that he installed the spyware/tracker from the getgo. And people that do that do not change. That's just his mindset.

any game that tracks and copies peoples personal info is not kool and you know its bad when the site itself posts a warning also this much effort on an incomplete game with average graphics a hard grind and a developer that copies your info ya i am not touching this with a ten foot pole i play these games for fun and relaxation not to deal with politics

What can I say that has not been said before, the game is ass, the story is copy and paste, the English is as bad if not worse then that of a phone scammer, and the renders could be made on a gameboy. 0/10 could not fap to this obvious spy ware.

i checked reviews and the game.
id say it is not that bad.
bit below average datesim sandbox

main issues for me
about 1,5 sec delays
some text issues (maybe i failed to setup it, but i think it was not insta-shown ...so as i skipped alot i could not catch a glimps of what is chatting about. so lets say it was not in renpy manner.)

The game sucks ass. I've played some good Sandbox games before and I've played adult games on engines other than Ren'Py, but this game is both an unenjoyable Sandbox game that is on a different engine. Bad combination. The very beginning shows a father that looks younger than the MC. Go figure. I used cheats to get all my stats, money, skills, female stats, and other stuff up and I still couldn't interact with other members of the house in a sexual manner. The game wanted me to talk to them first. So I went through a dozen "talk" menu choices that were boring and pointless, and I still couldn't do anything. It wasn't until later that I sat in my bed masturbating that I was able to unlock BJ scenes which sucked so bad that my dick remained limp even though my dick gets raging hard for most other games on the F95 website and I have a mountain pile of discarded tissues next to my bed. The sandbox aspect of the game is bad. You pretty much wake up in the morning, go to the Kitchen and click "Talk to everyone" and then there is no dialogue it just says you talked to them. Then you click on random rooms and hope it causes a scene to take affect. Then it's bed time again. Rinse and repeat. The game was so utterly boring and too much grinding. I mean I don't mind some grinding, but I want adequate rewards.

At the begin, you really think that the game has a story, a main plot. Renders are good, actually very good. But that's all, a extremely very slow advance, no more history content, the "game" consist to do exactly the same things over and over and over again with no logic, you will be boring.

How is it possible for a game to be this bad?

I've been following this game pretty much since it was released onto this site, back before even the engine change. Back then it had potential, now its just a mess.

Story: 2/10
Not the worst story I've had the (dis)pleasure of playing through, but its been several years and the story has barely gone anywhere. Not to mention it barely makes sense most of the time.

Visuals: 3/10
Decent enough looking characters, sometimes they look kinda weird but I'll chalk that up to bad renders. However the shitty animations plus engine problems make it way too hard to appreciate what does look good in this game. Speaking of, there are barely any animations to speak of, and most scenes that have sexual content are 3 image slideshows that you can repeat over and over again. No clue why you would want to anyway, they are terrible to look at.

Engine/UI: 0/10
Do I really have to explain this one? Oh boy, here we go....

Absolute the worst engine I've ever played on, skip unity, skip rpg maker, this takes the cake. I don't know how they've done it, but they managed to take the worst aspect of an engine like Unity and turned the notch up to 11. I don't even know what engine this is, but I do know I never wanna touch it ever again. I remember at one point this engine would just crash, randomly, with seemingly no reason for why. Please, whatever you do, never use this engine. Its awful...

Overall: 2/10 or 1/5 stars
At one point this game was a newcomer, albeit very similar to adult games coming out at the time, but it had potential. Now, that potential has been squandered with piss poor management of time and effort. I haven't even talked about the devs scummy practices, but this game is so bad on its own that you don't need to.

Don't play this game unless you want to give yourself a headache on purpose.

Despite the batshit crazy stuff which is going on here, I'll mainly rate the game.

Story: 1/10

Can't figure the story out. The wording and language is really bad. Stopped after 30 minutes due to brainfreeze.

CG: 3/10

3 points mainly because of the fine selection of copy pasted models without any editing. So CG was seen by me more than enough. The quality is bad. So many times just blurry and mushy. Faces are just boring. No details added. Lighting and angles are meh as well.

Mechanics: 0/10

Ohhh boy. Devs are claiming, that they worked in a big gaming company and decided to part ways and get into adult gaming stuff. What have you done at the big game company? Coffee in the mornings?
I saw some pretty solid VNM games, this one is a mess. UI is utter garbage. Some menus doesn't even have a back button. So if you just wanted to check what the menu is listing and don't want to change anything, the chances are high that you need to close the game. Game is also pretty slow and demanding. For 2d stuff ith still asks for GPU power.
Sometimes a menu is appearing at the pool are (the circles which were introduced in BB) and in other areas it is missing. Money is shown as energy, can buy stuff online but can't gamble due to insufficient funds?

That's just a really bad BB clone with some additional scenes. Everything wrong with this thing. Not a game, just a mess.

Engine is a resource hog. Game is very grindy for the small amount of content vs the game's download size. That's a chunk of my limited download cap wasted. Having to block the game from interwebz access makes me feel uneasy about computer security with this one...

"Sorry, I don't speak broken English"
Ah, the title says it all...

Story 4.5/10: I'll be honest; I never finished the game, why? Well, that's because the game has so many faults...
The story: No humor, No intrigue nothing. For some reason I feel like I'm reading a short story a child wrote in year 7 because they wanted to be an author...
To conclude: In words I would rate the story as "Worse than J.K!"

Renders 4.3/10: Don't let the cover image fool you folks! The renders are horrific! They even give the deformed girl from "Family Man" a run for their money!To conclude: In words I would rate the renders as: "Shit"

Animations 3.6/10: In comparison to most games they're not the worst but they're definitely below average! There is just nothing to them! I'll be honest... I really did expect more.
To conclude: I would rate the animations in words as: "Just no, just stop!"

English 0/10 :Ah, yes... the English, or as this Dev most probably thinks 'Engrish'. The spelling is abysmal, I can't, I just can't! The tense is all wrong the grammar is appalling. It's like the dev has put this in google translate changed it to some language then into another then into English! It's so bad!
To conclude: In words I would rate the English in the game as: "Utterly illegible like my handwriting!"

Personal Views:
I do a lot of negative reviews and sometimes if not most of the time my opinions don't reflect the actual game; be it because I've been to harsh or be that because I hate the Dev. However, I'm going to put my fist down and say that this time this 'Game' is without a smidjen of a doubt a complete and utter dumpster! Maybe if the dev could be bothered to proof-read and actually employ story telling this game could be a 3 star, but noooo!

To conclude: This game will receive the rating of 2/10 (Absolute utter rubbish!)

Tried the game, grammar and sentence structure was hackneyed at best and incomprehensible at worst.

Add that to the 'exclusive' patreon content and the game is just shit. What sex scenes I did see were single frame pieces with no animations as well. Just an all around terrible game.

I think its good game, even if its game lots of grinning, its still good. Cause its bave some stats( i like stats in games so much, even if its eroge like game) and i would be happy if stats would be more useful. And i would like to see more milf, if grinning would be more less, then it would be perfect.

not bad pics, but worst game engine and ther realization (lags/bugs/crashes, "ESC" key mean "exit game immideatly"). "storyline" is normal for low rated games. bad eng (i was forced to play russian lang), no german lang. and ofc. paywall. feedback is zero. in my case i ll never "patreon" that game until change engine, fix bugs, add german lang or fix so called "inglish".

Another BB reject *Sigh* I remember playing Ways of Life last year and stopped because I couldn't really get into it. So I decided to pick it back up recently because I felt that perhaps I didn't give it a fair shot. Within the first 10 minutes of gameplay that familiar feeling of boredom came back. Some games are worth the grind but I don't feel this isn't.

Maybe if it were on another much much better engine, slightly different models and a better story I'd somewhat look forward to playing again. For me, this horrendous engine to go along with overdone models and a mediocre story makes Ways of Life a huge turn off for me. The gameplay is annoying to me because of how slow and laggy it seems, the screen goes black everytime you change back and forth to other rooms. I wish the Devs the best but this game just isn't for me.

Good point: interesting content.

Bad Point:This is the worst game engine i have ever seen make the whole game lag it crazy and keep hanging.

To make things worst now they are locking contents behind that only allows a paid patreon to access . Why you do this type of shit when it is still as thought it is on the testing phrase, I mean i can understand if you want to start charging after everything is tested and working perfectly, but now u at charging people for this crap???

This game is a total disappointment. Seriously what is the game maker thinking...?

Poor English, grindy with little reward and the dev has locked content behind a patreon paywall. Just stay away from this game. Don't get me wrong the graphics are nice, if a little generic, but that's about all this game has. Plus, there are quite a few noticeable bugs.

Honestly I am very unsure where to even start this review. How about this, this game is beyond horrible in absolutely every stretch of the imagination except one. They purchased decent looking models from Daz3d.

First off the sound is turned up to ear piercing. There are so many sound sliders it will take you minutes to turn them all down individually.

Second, the UI is the most counter intuitive setup I have come across in any game I have played since 1984. Some screens require one click to move through, some require 2, some 3, and some screens require as much as 5 clicks to move to the next screen. You will never know which ones as it will always change.

The game claims to be sandbox, however, sandbox only means stat grinding. Go to the basement or gym for strength stat, jog in the park for agility, school for intelligence, oh and good luck figuring out what they actually impact in the game as the translation is horrible and explains nothing. Ill get more into that later in the review. The story is linear A to B to C to etc... and is required to open additional areas and opportunities to grind for more stats.

The dev claims to be a duo team and it is apparent that English is not their first language. Sure no problem. The issue is that everything is a 4 to 8 word sentence repeated. "You kiss Moira." "She likes it." Affection Raised. There is no real detail, no real story telling, world building, character building, or differentiating flavor text. The dev needs volunteers so bad to help him with translation, rewriting, syntax, and grammar. I don't know what his original language is, but I can only hope it reads better.

The final nail in the coffin for me is going to the devs patreon. Where he takes issue with the fact that pirates are leaving negative reviews of his game and due to this he is not going to pay attention to these reviews and focus solely on adding features his patreons want. Instead trying to rework the bugs, doing some rewrites with a couple volunteers (won't take long as there isn't much actual writing)......you know what...I'm done with this review.

Seriously stay away from this piece of cancer.

Models, Graphics, GUI & Story deserves a 4, or even a 5 if it got a bit more TLC.

The Bugs that's in this game are without a doubt dragging this game down.
With the bugs/Crashes it is a 3 Star game (Compared to other games on this site)..
However, I understand that these types of games are the most difficult to make and best to play once they work properly.

So well done to the dev, can see a huge amount of work has gone into this game. ALOT more than other 4 & half star games that are floating about.

I'm giving it a 4, as it definitely dose not deserve a 2 like i seen previous reviews, very harsh reviews.. i'll agree the coding is quite horrible and i did encounter a crash losing alot of progress.
It also black screened then another time, but luckily i had main story finished and was trying see if any side content i missed.

I quit after that.

Please sort out the Bugs and i will gladly give this another go in the future.

Bug#1 - went to park at night tried leaving and Sasha showed up... game the crashed
Bug#2 - Cant remeber fully if it was this location.. but i think i returned to the dreaded park again but tried to save when it black screened
Bug#3 - Unlimited 10& blackmailing Victoria (Hopefully got her name right) when she is smoking

Few other minor glitchy bugs when moving around and are probably obvious enough.. not sure if it is due to the engine your using though

Renders: 4/5 Nice, especially for fans of a particular game.
Story: 3.6/5 okay for a porn game. Not great not terrible
Why two stars?
Bugs, bugs, bugs. Gave up completely after my save file got corrupted. What is the point of good renders, if you don't see them anyway, because of the bugs?