VN - Ren'Py - We Are Lost [v0.4.12] [MaDDoG]

For the Son/Mom path it's "Lewd Island" meets "Naked and Afraid". Hell, they are even marooned on the same Island used in "Lewd Island" aaaand they are placed there as some kind of "experiment". Renders are pretty good. The dialogue is typical, "Oh mom, you are sooo hot! This hard on is all for you babe!" Zero originality in the story. The mom has an ass the size of a bus and titties to match and of course, the MC has a baseball bat between his legs that the mom cannot take her eyes off.

This is one of those games that gets undeserved low ratings and hate for various yet mostly childish reasons.
The dev is consistent with its regular small updates. The concept itself isnt original, yet which game around here has "original" concept?
What matters more are characters and relations building which is done fairly good. Milf character is particularly hot, and if you consider yourself a milf lover, you shouldnt pass on this small project. I have feeling once the things get over the boiling point, there will be some of the hottest milf sex scenes anywhere around.
Patience is a virtue, particularly for the projects that arent even 1yo.
Five stars from my side.

Story is a bit meh, im my opinion at the moment.
Content is little. but its early version of the game.
Renders are good.
Girls are hot. esp the blond one.
Looking forward to more fun with the blond one

There's an interesting idea here - a family gets kidnapped and wakes up locked in a hotel with no way out. But the writer doesn't know what to do with this idea so it just gets wasted. The obvious chain of events would be - wake up, figure out you're trapped, search for your family, try several different escape plans, learn that escape is being impossible, realise that you need to solve some kind of challenge, work together at the challenges, fuck your hot daughters, etc. Instead the MC tries the door in the lobby, finds it locked... and that's it. That's his entire attempt to leave the hotel where he and his family are imprisoned against their will. Trying the front door once. A door which is made of glass. I'm pretty sure a determined toddler could break that door. But our MC gives up immediately and with no further effort or explanation.

Speaking of transparent glass - what's outside the hotel? Forget the lobby doors - there are clearly windows in these rooms. What does the cast see outside? Are there people out there? Does it occur to them to try and get the attention of a passerby? I guess the existence of the outside world didn't occur to the characters. Certainly it didn't occur to the writer. Remember in Die Hard how John McClane set off the fire alarm, called the police on a radio, and then dropped a body on a patrol car; all in the name of getting the attention of anyone outside Nakatomi Plaza? You'd think maybe MC, realising that his whole family is in danger, might put more effort into escape than jiggling the handle on the front door, once. Writer, you need to meet the audience halfway on this whole suspension of disbelief thing.

Then there's cop subplot. Someone reports the family missing. Uh... who? Who knows they're missing? And what is going on at this police station? The detective gets called over the Tannoy system like she's a late train. One of her colleagues laughs at her for "being in trouble" like they're in primary school and she's been summoned to the principal's office. The police chief is sitting on a red leather throne in his study wearing a 1920's gangster outfit and a shoulder holster... because he has shootouts in his office maybe? I don't know. I guess it's supposed to reinforce that's he's a cop. Even though police chief is largely a political position that doesn't involve gunfights inside the station. He offers his very much on-duty detective a drink before telling her about the missing person's case that nobody should know about. Which has apparently already been investigated by other officers. The chief implies that he wants her to have a partner, which she rejects because she "works better alone", even though 30 seconds prior she was literally thinking "it's time like this I wish I had a partner". Is she a lone wolf or desperate for a partner? Make up your mind, story.

Anyway, Ashley is hot. That's about all this game has going for it. It would need a rewrite so that the characters act at least somewhat like real people would in their situation. Something to get the audience on their side. Or at least lampshade their bafflingly lazy behaviour by having the family be drugged and therefore not thinking clearly. And then maybe, you know, put in some goddamn fucking. This isn't a deep character study that can coast along on the quality of its story. The writing is objectively bad. So at least give us some spank in our spank game. Otherwise I would advise any newcomers not to waste their time. Hopefully some other dev can take Ashley's character model and this story idea and do it better.

[v0.2.6] An interesting concept. It's a visual novel where you get to choose between two very different paths - the older man or the younger boy. Each have very different experiences, so it is worth playing through both sides. Considering this variety, there is a good amount of content, but the downside is that the effort involved in building content for both paths would be a lot of work for the developer. As a result, the current content feels like only just the start of a much bigger story.

The path of the older male involves dealing with the two younger women, while the younger male spends time with the older female. I enjoyed the characters, renders, and situations, so there is great potential for the game. The younger male path feels like it has more seductive content much earlier in the story, but not enough content has been developed for the reward just yet.

I hope the developer continues this work, but they should be careful with the ambitious scope of the title.

Its been 8 months now and we are still stuck in the introduction, this is a new record of laziness, scumlordery and deceit. 8 months and not even 1 nude scene. This is that type of dev guys, be careful.

Anyways the game itself is interesting, two different pathways where you can be the father figure and be stuck with young ones. Or be the son and be stuck with the milf. Thats all i can say about this game as for now because after 8 months thats all there is to this game.

In the end if you are wanting to download this game, id say dont . Bookmark it and come back to it after maybe 2 years when we finally get a sex scene. As for now for whats available in the game it gets a 3/10 the models 8/10.

I like it very much!

Story is good for me and I like the 2 side story type.
Like in any other games there will be people for it and against it.
I personally dont like to be a complainer, for me things are simple. If I dont like I game then I simply dont play it.
This game I like it and I'm playing it.

Good story telling so far. Banger animations and great renders. Models are perfect. Only issue is the size of the game for how little there is of it, so when it’s finished how big will the file size be?

12 Updates and nothing has even happened?
I get the slowburn but really?
Not a bad game and it feels like there is something there but without any choice what so ever after 12 updates you should have focused on one protagonist. This just becomes booring and if you want to show people what you can do so they will support on patreon maybe have something actually happen.
All renders now are mostly of walls, doors and a elevator.
To get better response here maybe make something happen in the story because now you are just clicking the mouse to get to some content whatsoever.
Will be checking back on this "game" without choices way down the line.
Good lock in the future and hope you continue the game because the setting seems interesting but way to slow.

From what I can tell this game has been out for about 6 months? It is short, and not a lot happens so far (playing as of v01.1.15b) honestly don't know if this is a good amount for 6 months or not but regardless it seems the most recent 1 star reviews are mad mostly because there are so many super small updates lol. Maybe no one would even comment if it had one or two updates and was still the same length, other than saying it was short? lol

Maybe that is some good advice to the dev, is just do some updates once more content is finished, but as for my own opinion on playing the game for the first time at this version I actually quite enjoyed what is done so far.
I like the "son's" story a bit more than the "father's" so far but the hotel setting has a lot more interesting possibilities for the future.
Yes I'm giving it only 3 stars for now because it is short, but the slow burn at this point is zero problem for me, kind of refreshing actually since it has been more realistic than a lot of others that go from 0-family fucking at the drop of the hat for no real reasons. If that is what you want then sure, this isn't the game for you, but I did give it 3 stars because what story there is so far and the option to play 2 different POV's I think is pretty well done.
So I would say this one has potential, just maybe give it a while to cook so it plays more than like just a v.01.

I was about narrate all the facts (bad and poor story, no appeal, minimal (quantity and quality) sex content, ridiculous (quantity and quality) "updates") that make this title something to avoid; but by doing so I'll put more effort on this than the developer himself.

Just don't play it.

Do you like a story with meaningful progression or good pacing? Do you want to see porn in your pornographic VN? Do you want to experience anything even remotely interesting whatsoever? Well, sorry, but that's not happening here. The dev has so far spent 12 updates and 2.44 GB on telling a bland story where nothing happens, with no sex or tension, and is full of nothing but empty hallways and beaches where you click through line after line of equally empty dialog.

I always try to not immediately jump to assuming malicious intent, but there's enough competence on display here otherwise that there is really only one conclusion left - this game is being intentionally designed and produced in a way as to trickle out small, inconsequential updates at a steady pace. Basically, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably someone trying to game the system and milk things as much as possible.

Let me give you an example: at one point, the character Liam takes a shower. He wakes up, decides that's what he is going to do, and then does so. Afterwards, he dries himself off and gets dressed. That is the entirety of what happens in this scene. There is no other purpose to it, it's not a payoff for something that happened earlier, there's no action or anything of importance at all. It is literally just "he takes a shower." And yet, there are over 30 lines of dialog that describe the shower and his thoughts, featuring such gems as:

(There's some soap here.)
(It'll have to do.)
You grab the shower head and turn the water on.
(Ahhh, that's nice.)

On top of that, there are 15 unique renders showing off nothing but an empty hotel bathroom just for this scene. The camera moves around like a typical first person thing, and we are shown the toilet, the shower, the towels, and... wait, is that the shower head I've heard so much about!? OH BOY!

Now, it's OK to have some mundane stuff in a VN. Not every single scene or moment needs to be 100% full of plot, sex, setups/payoffs, and so on. Obviously, it depends on the story, but there's nothing inherently wrong with that. For this game, though, let's consider the context of that scene. Here is the description of the update it came from:

v0.1.9
Extension of Liams story
45 renders

...so 15 of those 45 renders were spent in an empty bathroom, accomplishing nothing. 1/3 of the entire update, and I can tell you that the other 2/3 weren't any better. That's not all, either, because this game has two different MCs with completely separate story lines. The update before this one was for the character Landon, and had 44 renders. So not only do you have these tiny and unimportant updates, but they're even more stretched out as the dev alternates between these two.

It feels designed to be a constant drip feed of filler bullshit, there's no two ways about it. Everything else about this game is competent - the renders are good, the spelling and grammar is all fine, and the dev is detail oriented enough to ensure their Patreon is first and foremost on the main menu - it's just that the actual end product is hollow.

I dunno, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's all an honest mistake and the dev just didn't have enough time to revise the story in between rendering out yet another slightly different angle of the same exact elevator buttons in the same exact setup as the last 15 times they've done it.

Terrible.
Dunno how someone can give more than 1 star for this game.

Cheap story - check
Daz knock-off characters - check
Thin skin updates - check

Also the dev is keep f*cking algorithm with his bitchass updates, which make his work more visible.

English: 9
User Interface: 3
User Experience: 1
Art: 6
Dialogue: 5
Story: 3
Opinion: 2
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Avg: 4.14

I think my review of the game might end up being longer than the actual game, so here we go. This is a poor, miserable way to go about making a game. I'm gonna start with that. Weekly micro-updates that are seven images and maybe 100 words is a waste of bandwidth. And I want to make that perfectly clear because this THREE MINUTE game is ONE GIGABYTE. So the 50 images are ridiculously uncompressed for no reason other than to mislead people that download thinking the "game" is longer than it is. And this is 100% a Kinetic Novel. There are no choices. I don't see a universe in which there will ever be choices.

The story is probably(and most likely will be) MC and family "win" a free trip for the family, but it's for rich people to watch a family have sex on the dark web. And literally on a whim they go straight to the airport. Then on the plane MC falls asleep and ends up on a deserted island, if you're the son, and a hotel if you're the dad. For the son, a day later the mother shows up, completely dry, and that will probably continue to happen IF dev wants to keep the dumb "no ntr" tagline, which is a can of worms I don't want to comment on. The dad is "stranded" in a luxury hotel with the daughters, and unless the other characters show up in the other storylines, it means the son is screwing his wife lol. Meanwhile a police officer, that broke into their house unlawfully, is investigating their disappearance even though they've only been gone maybe a day. And that's it. Son and mother get a "The Forest" type suitcase delivered to them with food and water, they barely question it, and eat. Then Scarlett goes "Come quick" and the game ends. Your WEEKLY cliffhanger. And the dad gets keys to rooms that end in the same cliffhangers.

I want to say, I don't want to be harsh. But making micro-updates just to stay in the public eye is a little scummy. Even if all the comments are "This game is short and dum" That's still generating traffic toward this "game." What I would like to see is for this to suddenly disappear for a while and come back with a big update This could actually get interesting. Maybe even worth a GB of hard drive space. There's two animations, the Main Menu just does a rubberbanding back and forth and the mother just moonwalking in place randomly. And most of each update seems to go to the dads storyline, but it's still next to nothing. I feel like I haven't even gotten to the hook, but the hook is supposed to be "Oh no, what's going on?" But if you've read this far, you can probably read between the lines and know what will happen, dumb porn game, hello.

The English is fine, I didn't notice broken english or anything. The UI is the same DEFAULT renpy UI that is an absolute eyesore, change the font and like three images, it's not that hard. The UX would be defaulted at 3, but the beginning of the game you have to go through every character and "define their relationships" which is a bunch of typing and nonsense that could be dealt with in a bunch of other ways. And I don't even fucking like incest content so it was a chore to me. The art is... Fine. The women are all "boob and butt sliders to max." But the only hint of "adult content" in this is you "get" to see the son look down at his dick twice. So, yet again, another KN that focuses on MC's dick for more than zero seconds, so it's weird. The dialogue and story are meh, "What's going on" "Are you alright" "Don't worry." And my opinion is low.

TLDR Dev: Disappear a while and write more than 45 words. And player, wait about 35 updates before you play again.

This game has the potential to be good but it will take 9 years to get there.

I'm sorry but these microscopic updates are not cutting it. Every "update" is indistinguishable from the version it is building on because nothing gets added. You get maybe 2-3 conversations and an activity or chore that the mc does, and that's it.

There are much better games on this site, don't waste your time with this one.

This looks promising.
Characters modules seems great, maybe a bit "youngish" but that's a taste.

Slow and steady updates are better than to rush it out, no nudes as of yet but an introduction and some plot.

This is an early game review, it will change in due course of time, if it does not, it should mean that I have settled with the review initially given.

With that statement out of the way, I wish to say that this concept of having 2 related male protagonists competing for the affection of the females (it is said to not contain NTR) is still a niche one with varying degrees of success and perhaps I'm biased but this rating is based predominantly on the premise of the game, with character models being a distinct second.

So far, the introduction has been decent and the game carries a decent pace (not talking about the frequency of the updates but about the plot, pity the updates don't have ratings of their own.). I can say that the models were created keeping the ages of characters in mind, perhaps the MILF could have aged a bit better, having birthed 3 children who are now adults.

All now depends on how our developer shapes his story, all the best.

Being able to choose between two main characters is awesome.
I chose an older gentleman, as the proportion of university-aged boys is already annoying. The ratio of such games is about 1/10 in favor of the greenhorn.
Unfortunately, 40+ renders per update is a bit low to enjoy the content.
I will probably start checking for updates once a quarter in the future , of course if the author has the courage and determination to continue with his work.
Anyway, good luck and new challenges to MaDDoG!

The art is excellent. I look forward to the game when more contents.
I can't wait to see the sexual part,maybe can do the nude part at least.
It's can't even call adult game currently.
I think it can make some naked render at least!

The concept of the game is very promising. I like how the dev uses time to develop the story of the game. Sometimes rushing into a plot ruins the whole game for it to be just a sexfest. Do wish there were a bit more nudes, maybe a bit of the MCs feelings towards the females.

The art is great, WAY better than most things on this platform. SO if the dev can keep up the good art and animations + deliver a solid story, this will definitely be an amazing game.
Great work considering game is still pretty new.

Dev can also try to add more content in each update. Maybe do monthly updates instead of biweekl.