VN - Ren'Py - Where the Heart Is [S1 v2024-09-06 BETA] [CheekyGimp]

Pros :
-Very Good renders
-Good storytelling (well , as good a VN about trying to bang 8 or so females can get)
-Decent dialogue , it doesn't feel cheesy .
-Good pacing , you don't get fuck everyone in the first day .
-Good length
Cons : well , more like nitpicks really lol
-no music or sounds ,i have to use music from other games to play the game.
-the original background story is kinda bad , you need the incest patch but to each his own , i guess it's kinda subjective so give the original a shot if your not into incest .
- you can miss out on content if you don't pick the best choices , so you might need a mod if you don't feel like replaying a lot .

*Rating : 8.9/10*
a lot of effort and love went into this so i'll give it 5 stars and overlook my nitpicks .
Anyway if you haven't already just play the damn game it's for free .....

Played through to Ep 16, OSX:

At the start of the game, it looks as though i'm stuck with a sh-- sandwich full of very aging women with overly large chests and not much going for them in terms of character or phyiscal appeal. Unfortunately The younger sister of the attractive woman at the beginning of the game also falls into the category of "Do I really have be to in the same room as this one!?"
I almost felt as if the Dev was insisting I had to bang the ones who were incredibly uninteresting in order to get further along with some of the content where it was including more interesting options.

When Katie comes into the picture that's where a glimmer of hope for the persons journeying through the story, when her friends come into the picture it gets even better.
Some of the writing for Katie gives her character and some depth, her physical attributes are perfect. Her friends are just as good.

There is some minor intrigue in the story lines regarding Dad and the family dynamics there but it doesn't go into that much further that I'm aware of.

If you fast forward through the portions of being forced to interact with frumpy (borderline) unattractive older women it does get better, so there is the silver lining. The rendering of the women in here early on in the game leads one to believe this is not going to be a good experience, but that improves somewhat later on too.

I really enjoy this story, the main character being strong and competent rather than just a weaselly voyeur is a nice change from most of the games I've seen. I look forward to seeing more of the story (I played to chapetr 16).

This game is excellent, I really like how the game doesn't throw you into sex right off the bat, you actually have to develop a relationship with the characters and always pick the best choice, really realistic imo. There's so many branches in this game too, with different endings and outcomes depending on what you choose to say, honestly an amazing game and I can tell that alot of time has been put into it. 10/10

some hookups feel a little quick but apart from the number of interactions it takes in game the actual dialogue feels genuine to me. I mean if I wanted realistic I'd be playing that other game called 'real life'. This game (imho) is what an adult game should be: believable enough to draw you in, interesting & sexy enough to keep you there. Slow enough so it doesnt feel like a meet & fuck title but just fast enough to not get bored/give up on game.

At this point I just hope I don't end up like I usually do in these games: in the beginning I want to choose 1 or 2, but the more you get to know some of them the harder it gets to keep it simple & before I know it I'm headed down the 'I hope this has a true harem ending or I've probably just screwed myself....again' path lmao

I will start by the positives:

• regular updates, and the dev is clearly invested
• huge amount of content
• the writing for the sex scenes is okay and I find the situations exciting

Now to the bad things:

• the 3D models and the animations are very poorly done
• the 1st person POV kisses look ridiculous
• there are a lot of very cheesy lines that take you out of the story (especially with Katie)

This is one of my all-time favorite VNs. What will the MC do about the will? He'll tell the lawyer to shove his inheritance up his ass. His new-found family will be ecstatic until they discover that he's been "doing" all of them while professing his undying love and devotion to each one. They tie him up and toast his still-attached cock over the barbeque. Dickless, penniless he flees to his beach house . One-by-one the utilities are turned off and he's forced to use candles. One night the curtains catch fire and his once fabulous home burns to the ground. He frantically contacts his insurance agent only to find out that his policy lapsed long ago. The game ends with the warning:
"KARMA: Fuck your family and they'll cluster fuck you,
turn your penis into jerky, and take turns chewing on it"
Hello friends I hope you enjoyed the game. Please support my next project "Torturing Mommy" .

Game:

- Rendering is very good
- the Animations are great (it wasn't like that at the beginning)


Story:

- the Story will be told well and succinctly
- I find no long and annoying Dialogues great

Characters:

- Not all female characters are pretty, but most of them are and only that is important to me.


Conclusion:

This game has made a great Development for my compliment to the Dev.

5/5

This game earns 5 stars just from the excellent renders and stunning girls alone. Katie and her friends are beyond gorgeous.
The transformation of Jenna from nerdy girl to tanned beauty with a kinky side is even more amazing, and I can't wait to see where this game takes her. She already looks so good, and she's promised to buy more slutty clothes. Love her in those boots too!
Wanda, the bitchy model who gets off on being degraded by you, is also a quality character.
There are many more women the game - the only two I can't get into are Monica and Zarah - their faces are a real turn-off.
I'm left wondering how the relationships are going to work out. So far it's been possible to romance them all - are we going to be able to become one big happy poly family, or are we going to have to make difficult decisions at some point?

very well made one of the best games I have played. the game has updates come out consistently adding to an already well made story I like the idea behind it kind of like a series with monthly epsiodes

So the game is fantastic, I feel a bit guilty only giving it 4 stars, so let me get that bit out of the way first. Sadly, I feel that the unattractiveness of some of the characters detracts from the story and the enjoyment of trying to corrupt them and so on. The worst offender is the mother character, I'm a fairly impatient person so generally have my attention glued to the bottom fifth of the screen just reading through the text as quickly as I can, but then I'd occasionally glance up and find myself face to face with this horrific demon entity trying to melt the flesh from my bones with it's hideous gaze, haha. Obviously some of it's subjective, I hate the whole cow-tits thing (but seem to be in the minority there)... but yeah, I felt myself getting largely pulled towards the older sister, as I was wondering why, but then I realised it was just because her model was much better than the others ... though admittedly the younger sister somehow got better when she went full blackface but there's still something very lifeless about her.

However, despite that... the game is real solid... I really enjoyed the slow burn of it all, I was playing with the incest mod, which I think helps in that regards too. I think one sign that it's a really great game is that this is probably the first time I've actually felt guilty, normally in games I can sling my dick in everything, rape, lie, cheat and steal and not care... but when I told the younger sister I loved her and we were a full couple now I actually felt bad knowing I'd drop her the first time that being with her might interfere with the other sister. Speaking of which, another sign it's a great game is that while I'll keep pushing everyone's routes how I can until this house of cards falls down around me (I think we're up to 10 women now with an 11th contender entering the ring), I'd actually be up for a second playthrough just picking one girl and trying to be nice to the others but nothing unfaithful... but I'd probably wait for a full release before that.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to more of this, I'm curious who the 3rd beneficiary is (I'm suspicious about the step-mothers sister and coffee girl just in general) and I'm really hoping I get that 4 way with Kate and her friends ... I think my dream situation is to end up with Kate, with Deb and Lily a couple but the understanding that any of us can mess around with the others in the group... I was glad that I got a chance to encourage their lesbianism and that things seem to be heading that way at least a bit.

Потрясающий диалог. Лучшая игра с медленной коррупцией / сопротивлением, в которую я играл со времен Dreams of Desire (особенно если использовать патч / мод). 3д модели может быть немного хуже, но все остальное, наверное, лучше. Меньше сюжета (без забот), лучше диалог, лучше строить. Если вам понравилась эта игра и вы ищете что-то лучшее, то это она!

Finished game little while ago. Game has many good things but also things which i really dont like, so...

Pros:

I liked story, dialogues were quite enjoyable read even though some conversations were somewhat long, but that didnt bother me. Build ups with characters was also nice.

Decent renders, not the best but definitely nowhere near worst either!

Katie and Jenna were very likeable persons, Bella wasnt bad either.

Very good amount of content to play!

Cons:

Lets start with thing which annoyed me the most, POV kissing and sex scenes/angles. Especially POV kissing ruins the mood completely for me, its just looks so stupid. Some of POV sex scenes/angles was decent but i mostly didnt enjoy cuz cant see the faces of girls, would like more 3rd person angles, most of them was on POV.

More renders if long dialogues. That was the second thing which i didnt like. Sometimes there was long scenes with only few renders and so much of dialogue, it gets very boring to watch same render over and over again when they talk a lot.

Also i noticed that the same renders were used again and again later in the game which we already saw earlier (especially when he/she used same renders with different sex scenes was very bad imo, Katie's first time, for example)

Still, i give the game 3 stars, but oh boy this could been easily my top 3 game if only... Well, if u read "cons" then u know why it wasnt. But definitely enjoyable game storywise!

Well, I played only 'til episode 9 so far, so I'll give a more detailed review once I'm up to speed with the latest release, but what I can say so far is this:

The things I think are more important in this type of game are: Visuals and Story... 1a and 1b to me... And both of them are not great in this game (obviously I can't say that much about the story cause I played just a little over half of it so far)

Visuals: Average. Most characters have a really weird gray-ish skin tone, and their facial expressions are not that good either. And the locations, objects, etc don't look real or natural..

Story: Oh, look, another story where the MC goes back home to his mother and 2 sisters. Except there is no incest, so they're replaced by his mom's friend and her 2 daughters. And all of them are really impressed and attracted by your gigantic dick. How original.

Whoa boy, this is going to be a really difficult review to write.

The artwork is all over the place, character models range from well done to plastic barbie doll to downright ugly. Backgrounds amount to huge blobs of colour to dictate where everything is, to the point it's quite noticeable. Animations are all over the place, with some being flipbook, some being really janky and poorly done, and some being actually really high quality. There's no soundtrack either so that's another mark against the game. Overall, it just lacks a lot of polish. Once the game is finished, if the dev spent a few weeks, months, however long it took, to really nail down detail work and animation quality then this could be a much better game.

There's a few saving graces however.

The writing is witty and humorous, the characters are distinct and despite most of them being cliches of the adult VN genre they all feel just a little bit different to the norm. The story is an engaging mystery that plays out like some Machiavellian drama without taking itself totally seriously.

I do really enjoy the game in it's current state but the lack of quality in terms of presentation really drags this game down in comparison to some of it's peers. If it gets a coat of polish in the future, I won't hesitate to upgrade my score to a perfect.

Certainly one of the best games here. Choices affect the game but they are not too constrictive and the plot is interesting but easy to follow. The game is also regularly updated every 4-6 weeks. The pacing of the story is good and while I don't find every character interesting, they are different from each other.

Chapter16.
You know that slide when the story of the VN goes downhill when you start *ucking everyone? Not here! This is a rare gem where everything just keeps getting better and better! Some say the girls should look better.. Dont mind them! There´s a lot of fap material here! You really just end up liking the girls! Because they're awesome and well fleshed out characters that seem real and that includes the MC. Tee writing of this game is growing and it´s clear for us why the girls are interest is the MC and very clear why we like them. Just try it!

honestly i played a lot of games here, hands down this has to be one of my top games if not the top game so far.

when the BASEMENT exchange was happening i had to take a moment to reflect on how amazing the writing is. the plot, the jokes, the banter and the relationship with everyone it makes the game way more enjoyable to play and work on your relationship with every character because it is worth it.

the character development is amazing and you can easily lose yourself playing it wishing it can never end.

took me a long time to get to it but am very very glad i got to this game. everyone interested in an actual game and story in this site should try it because it is easily one of the most satisfying game stories you can experience...

the only downside is now it set the bar pretty high for any other games i play XD

I decided to give this game a 5 star. Its a bit generous but I want to encourage others to try it and to encourage dev to continue producing great games
I`m speaking as another dev...
Game is great. Story is easy/cheesy but its fine... I like that, its my preferred choice. Don`t expect some Skyrim story Its very hot game, with decent rendering but later on it gets better and better!!!(really nice animations later on!!!).It felt no more then 3 star game first half and hour or so but it really improves later on and its much better game...
I love frequent choices! Again, congrats to dev for implementing that! I love it! Its so much more involving and sexier to have choices even the obvious ones! That`s why I gave this game a 5 star despite not being AAA title...

Once again, support the developer if you like his work! Its very important and it motivates him to improve and keep delivering even better game. Its very hard work!(trust me, I know)

Variety, frequent choices, easy story, romance driven is a major plus for this game!

I love this VN, I liked the plot, the girls are very charismatic and the protagonist is not the typical idiot who fuck every woman he sees.

I definitely give him 5 stars and I hope to see more games from his dev in the future.