VN - Ren'Py - White Cube [v0.5c] [Anekin69]

I had rated this game 5/5 for the great storyline, suspense and tension build up.
That was until the Dev killed the MC (for good or faked it ?), still the game turn to 180° to a ghost cuckold story.
So the game has gone to a 5/5 down to 2/5. I will not play it until it's repaired, so is most of the fanbase.

It has probably the lamest plot twist in a video game I've seen. The writing is horrible.

Starts promising but it escalates beyond what's reasonable IMO.

The renders aren't that bad. But the thing is, if you have a game where the setting is a white cube. All your scenarios, your scenes, all are super constrained.

What's left? The writing and the renders. The writing is bad and the renders cannot carry a game alone if the whole purpose is to be "twisted and mysterious"

Anyway that's my opinion; I think this game is due a remake. Specially a developer with a first game. Focus on one protagonist. Otherwise the game is going to keep biting more than it can chew.

Although it’s not my favorite just yet, it feels pretty good, and the storyline makes me want to keep watching.

I hope the upcoming content includes more mysterious elements or additional family members, but ultimately, it’s up to the developers’ vision.

A kinetic novel with mediocre writing, boring characters and and nonsensical plot. There is very few good things to say about this VN. The Renders are good, and the sex scenes that exist are ok, but are not great. The game is really mediocre in all fields.

PROS
+ Prologue was promising.
+ It has quite unique, and interesting main menu design.

CONS
- Story is wasted, a lot of thing doesn't make any sense at all, and some stuff is just makes the game worse like at some point John just dies, John's step sister comes to room, or Emma's stepfather appears for no reason, and girls gets forced to have sex with him, etc, list goes on...
- Characters are quite annoying, considering the situation they are in this could be great game to show these characer bond, etc, but since they are not really likeable, especially Emma is quite annoying,so it feels like wasted opportunity.
- Main menu music starting when you open the save page is bit annoying especially if you save a lot.
- Especially at first parts of the game textures/renders, and models looks bit old, and low quality, they get better later on, but still sometimes there are weird white effects on the screen, etc.
- Females doesn't look attaractive enough, some are decent, some are mid at best, and some are kind of unataractive.
- Sex scenes are bad, some have no animation, and have pictures with bad angles/positions, some have static pictures as a animations, and some have animations, but animations don't has good physics, or angles/positions.
- It doesn't have enough content for 3 years old game.

VERDICT
Not sure what to say, it's a game with great potential, but execution is quite poor.

I'm on the line on this one. The concept I find very interesting and different from what you normally find in the web, but it's execution is so-so. Writing is decent, but not great, and quite often the characters seem to change their minds for no clear reason, especially Mark and his outburtsts. The fact that there are very few choices and they don't seem to matter at all takes all the tension out of the story, as you are mostly a witness to events, and characters breaking the fourth wall to speak to you directly breaks inmersion (I guess that's why it doesn't happen much as you advance the game). Which made me detach from those events and, since I could do little about them, care little for the results.

Render quality is pretty good and character models are well done and built. Poses, lighting and such work pretty well, but animations are a bit lackluster and only enter the scene ones you've advanced quite a bit. I took out the music but the sounds effect were sometimes good and sometimes repetitive; voice acting is present, but it's very inconsistent especially in the first half when most lines are not voiced but some are. ç

So, all in all, I'll keep an eye on this one to see where it goes, production values have been going up as it advances (animations, voice acting, etc.) and there seem to be more choices and meaningful ones, so it may be in the right direction to make up for it's past shortcomings. We'll see.

Edit: I update that choices clearly don't matter. I had to redo the game for my reasons and chose completely opposite things and ended up getting the same results. Even saying "no" in the bathroom scene changes nothing of Anna's fate.

Best vn on f95 for all degenerates like me who enjoy rape, blackmail, humiliation, sexual slavery and NTR (actually there are NOT any of these fetishes - except maybe humiliation - but people who enjoys them will enjoy the game immensely since it gives similar emotions).
I wouldn't call it exactly NTR because John didn't even felt like fully-fledged protagonist, tbh. It's feeling more like third-perspective story rather than first one. May be I will be in minority - but I really enjoy in what direction this story is going after last update. I am big fan of such astronomically rare fetish as CONSENSUAL HATE SEX - and if this will be the main theme - I am going to be happy man. It's instantly 10/10 for me. I really can't wait and excited about what next sweet humiliation tasks these two proud strongwilled sextoys are going to endure, ehehe.
The only minus would be omission of incest fetish - for development of which there was lot of promise from appearance of sister character. But here are so many incest games that it's not that big of a deal. And maybe a little bit too many flashbacks - I am not a really big fan of them as plot device since it breaks the pacing of a story.
Death game is interesting setting - and production values of the game is outstanding. Superb quality of models and POV angles, all these movies, music and sounds, voice acting is on unprecedented for typical f95 content level. Probably one of the best SEXUAL TENSION building novels I read as well.
Negative reviews are from NTR and dark content haters - so don't pay any attention to them. This is a must read for dark sexual content connoiseurs - you are not going to regret it.

Dumb game and latest update only solidified that opinion. Started out as a trite but engaging psychological horror. Updates went by with little advancement but i kept it on my radar. Finally we come to the final update, or at least as far as i got, which ends up with the dude and girl from the beginning getting their head blow off after trying to shove a dildo the size of a watermelon inside her ass. I actually appreciated the realism of having a MC without a donkey dick, but that dont mean i want to see what really happens when you try to shove a bowl ball up someones ass. Anyway I'm out, and if this aint your thing I hope ive steered you away from a couple hours you'll never be able to get back.

3 years - and no content. This game not goin to anywhere, but to pockets of dons. 200 characters you say? ok "...It may even inflict this status effect on several creatures, if they are close by the attacked one. This pairs great with... "

The choices you make have zero consequences in the story except minor dialog changes. Not only that, but John, the male MC gets his head blown off in task 5 no matter what you do and he's replaced by Emma's rapey dead stepfather. Just how moronic can a story get? It's not even consistent with the collars since they said it would inject poison in the first part of the story, not explode. I'm glad I didn't give this dev any money and you shouldn't either.

Story went downhill, old male character is killed and the story is just fucked right now. Dev says the story is already written and if he insists this is the way to go with the story. Then he must have made some things clear with the story line. It has kind of an NTR content right now. This is the first game that I gave a 1 star review.

Story went downhill, New annoying male character. The only way that the dev could save the game is to rewrite the whole game and start new. Dev wanted to add shock value but failed miserably.Dev killed a plot line even if he wants to talk about the past actions of the first male Mc, It doesn't matter anymore.

Literraly a game of thrones update. Down the drain it goes.

I followed the development of this since the very beginning, as it had a nice and somewhat different style, and it started quite fine, but the more it advances, the more dumb and absurd it gets. Nothing makes sense and it's like all is totally improvised with nothing that may attract the viewer. If it continues this way it may get worse than Rings of Power, which is something seriously difficult to achieve xD

Interesting concept which then goes all over the place, and gets incoherent.

The girls look good and are fine character wise.

The guy is absolutely horrific, his face is ok, but his body is beyond ugly. Besides his looks, he's also a total douche. Sure, it looks like there might be an explanation for his behaviour one day, but for now it's just nasty.

I think the dev should first work on his story, it needs coherence and at least a little bit of guidance for us viewers to know what we are dealing with here, too many things are unclear. This doesn't mean there cannot be any mysteries left.

After that the guy needs a new body

Weird..., here is my take on it so far, not much, will add more later;

Pros:

1. Interesting concept
2. Good looking models
3. Clearly has some sci-fi element to it which I usually enjoy

Cons:

1. Dialogue can be better
2. Issue for me with story and character cohesion, some things just don't flow or make sense, too unrealistic.
3. Game is all over the place with flashbacks that make no sense, at least not yet.
4. Choices have no meaningful impact if any really, the result of the game so far is exactly the same in either case.
5. Too far fetched in a way, at this point whats happening to these characters clearly has no limit and can be anything which ends up losing my interest. The game becomes a shock and horror thing instead of also intriguing.

Could be part of the story, could be characters are drugged, not sure, however, some moments between characters are just not well structured, the dialogue is wrong, the characters behaviour is nonsensical and their memories are rather short. Nothing that is said or done has any real effect if any.

The writer is clearly trying too hard to making something unique or they are just throwing ideas into a blender and letting the player experience it.

Either which way, this game will need a lot of work and I recommend only playing it much later or even better, when/if its complete. Perhaps then it will be structured into something that is actually good and makes sense, not this.

The game is beyond terrible. Calling it a game is and insult to game. You do nothing you have no choice. It is not even a proper visual novel since the story doesnt even make any sense as it jump from one scene to another without any explanation. And it doesnt even follow the tags it shown.

Absolutely superb "direction", which really tries to make it seem like an independent cult horror movie of the past.
Renders are nice, and despite the seemingly dull premise the plot has many twists and variety (in fact, shoehorning sex at at every occasion is kinda doing it a disservice).

I'm not giving full rating just because the game cannot seem to decide whether you are supposed to play it in "third person" or you are actually meant to fill the characters shoes. Unlike in cinema you are given a minimum amount of latitude here, and suspension of disbelief breaks completely when certain.. very aggressive or dumb behaviours happen randomly.

A promising project, quite intresting idea, good and intriguing start... But something went wrong. It just gets worse with each update. Renders are good though.
Looks like this game is done. Or it desperately needs quite radical remake.
Sad but true.