VN - Ren'Py - Whoremonger NTE [Act 4.1] [Turning Tricks]

TLDR: Underrated. Heartwarming story of second chances, wonderful dialogue (Albeit too long in some specific respects), women look realistic, which I much prefer to the plastic characters we see so often (But it is subjective!), semi-realistic and in some cases, realistic flirting, which is hard to find.

All in all, I give this VN a 4.7 out of 5.0 rating. It is my second top-rated VN's of all time, outranked only by Power Vacuum and followed by Neuvau.

Positives:

• Realistic characters.
• One of, if not, my favourite prologue of all time.
• Realistic look of LI's.
• Main Character has an actual story arc (Incredibly rare).
• Conversations are incredibly well written. Second only to Power Vacuum.
• Corruption actually feels rewarding. Only did the Lust path though.
• Cheating and revenge included, even if it's with an old lady (But I'll take it!)
• Multiple options for disabling scenes if you don't like NTR.
• Though it has two routes from what I recall, I never did the Love route for any of the girls.
• Makes other characters in the story jealous of you.
• Camera angle can be changed during scenes.
• Build-up feels so rewarding once you get to the scenes.
• Asian LI that I didn't like at the start, grew on me. Only because of how good the dialogue is.

Negatives:

• No gallery besides some photos you can collect. Unfortunate, but not that annoying, considering the story makes it worth it to replay it.
• Some Cafe scenes last quite a bit (The talking), with people I personally wasn't that invested in.
• Too few scenes with the owner of the building (I love that guy! Such a bro).

This game is the only one in my top three of all time, that I support on SubscribeStar... The other two, I can't any longer.

It should tell you then, how much I admire it.

If Power Vacuum showed me that I didn't need to rely on incest to enjoy a great erotic story, this taught me how much someone's character in itself, can make a story, after they pick up the pieces to rebuild the life they once lost to injustice.

And of course, same as Power Vacuum, it helped me see that I didn't need tags like corruption or incest, to appreciate a story, just needed really well written characters. And we don't really have that many stories like this, in non-erotic or erotic fiction.

Review for version: 4.1

Thank you, Turning Tricks, for a great story so far (Please don't abandon it).

TLDR: Overrated. Very unattractive girls. Unsatisfying sex, extremely few scenes. Outdated assets and rendering. A few positives such as choice of love and lust path, set girl age, good flirting and dirty talk.

Positives:

• MC looks quite good (for an old dude).
• Can set the ages of the girls.
• Variety of the girls is, in principle, nice. (Sadly, I find almost all of them unattractive.)
• Conversations, flirting with the girls is generally well written.
• Dirty talk during sex is hot.
• Photographing/recording the girls. (But only 1 scene)
• Option to disable girls having FF sex without MC. Still, why even include sex scenes without MC? Secondly, the option doesn't work completely, there are still some mandatory FF scenes without MC.
• Choice of "Love" or "Lust" path for most of the girls (except 4).
• Has animations (although they look bad, at least it's something).
• Change camera angle during some scenes.

Negatives:

• Don't want to be rude but this is the ugliest collection of girls I've seen in a game. Several are really unattractive. E.g. heavy acne, fat stomach and face, saggy or otherwise misshaped breasts, flat ass, baggy eyes, very old and wrinkled, short/karen hair, etc.
• 5 of the girls are waaay to young, like they're only 11-12. Seriously disgusting, they're prepubescent children.
• Sex scenes are very unsatisfying, short, look weird and unnatural, several don't even show orgasms and instead just stops the scene.
• Very few sex scenes. No anal despite tagged as anal. (Obviously, using a dildo isn't the same as having anal sex.)
• Progression is convoluted and frustrating. No walkthrough. Consequences of choices is unclear. Combinations of choices to unlock certain scenes are complex and unknown.
• Forced relationships. E.g. game forces a big and in-depth relationship with a stripper.
• Animations are basic, unnatural, not looping correctly, slow, and doesn't show deep penetration.
• Long introduction by dev, justifying decisions, NTR, forced relationships, etc. Bad sign when a game "needs" such an intro.
• Dev thinks MC cucking others is the same as MC being NTRed. So, stupidly, using the option for MC to not be NTRed also blocks cuckolding others. Those are wildly different kinks, almost opposites.
• Poor rendering quality, posing and facial expressions. Characters are often rendered separately from the environment, so it looks bad and unnatural.
• Story "flow" feels wrong and erratic, both within a scene and between scenes. So, e.g. in a scene the renders and dialogue jump erratically around between topics and poses that seem wrong, unnatural.
• Rejecting girls doesn't work well. There's still sexually charged scenes, flirting, seduction with them, they just don't go all the way.
• Must cum outside to avoid pregnancy. That sucks. There's only one warning about this but it still applies to every sex scene.
• Poor attempts at humor. And dev making jokes at player's expense.
• If you don't want to see the girls fucking each other without MC then you also apparently miss out on other sex scenes with MC. This was not explained in game and is a bad decision.
• There's no scene gallery so you can't replay scenes and you can't see what scenes you've yet to unlock.

Number of scenes (when NTR is off) in my playthrough. Always on "Lust" path.

• Vaginal: 5
• Anal: 0
• DP: 0

(Version played: Act.4.1.Beta)

One of the best games I have seen in a long time! The bodies of the chicks are different and more realistic. It's not like they are all traditionally super hot with DD tits and perfect ass. Lots of body variations. The story is intresting and the sxeual build up is great. 5 stars from me!

A very nice game. Good work.
1st time reading most of the stories of H game rather than skipping them. It happens naturally & lustfully at the same time, so somehow the players can believe they are really the MC of this game.
Thank you for making it.

Good story, and girls with smaller tits and ass <3
Lots of girls and a lot of possibilities. Great animation and beutiful people. Hope to see a lot more like this.
It could be fun, if it was possible to make some of the girls pregnant in this story.

This is solid. Much better written than I expected given the title. Graphics are not great but are compensated with (relatively) a good amount of content compared to the typical AVN with the same amount of development time. Very much a Gary Stu MC game, but for a rainy lazy day you could pick a far worse VN

Would recommend

Honestly, this one is a bit of a gem on here. I don't have much to say beyond that playing this was enough to get me to look at the devs other work. The story, for lack of a better term, is charming despite the darker tags. I look forward to the next update and will be following this developer.

Invested so much time and work just to end up creating most hideous and unattractive characters ever possible in a 3d game, i have never felt so sour even while playing those annoying rpg games but this one just took the limit up a notch

Act 4.1

The story is simple, but fun "man has a bad turn in his life, but apartment building full of nice and horny women help him to find enjoyment in life again". There is good amount of seriousness to create some kind of a plot, but main theme is always the sexual situations.
The main plot is not that interesting and for that reason, writing does get little boring sometimes. There really isn´t much to look for in the plot, but it is better than nothing.

Writing is mostly good enough to read. Lots of different kind of interesting characters. Atmosphere is laid-back, with good amount of nice teasing and flirting. Extra bonus for having somewhat perverted women characters and raunchier sex talk.

Visually game is good. Sex scenes are long and spicy enough to compensate the graphics quality. Women are not that sexy or even good looking always, but some realistic ugliness fits well in the whole idea of "average lonely women".

A very boring game where the story and sequences repeat themselves, barely any smut happens, and you find yourself becoming bored very quickly. No idea why this is so highly reviewed, there is literally next to no dialogue during scenes and the gallery is just a literal slide show. A terrible game.

The story of the main character is pretty straight forward - You are out of jail and now work as building manager in a big appartment building. You help (female) tenants with their daily stuff.

The story is mediocre. The quality of renders and scenes is great, the sex scenes are good for most of the time, however the "animation" parts have a very poor quality. Would have been better to work with renders in my opinion and not try to force it to look like a smooth transition.

The catch for this game is that you can have love/lust-routes for the interactable characters - BUT most of the women also have children... which are all totally 18 years old (you can edit their age) and have some sexual interaction with. Oh and you also have a daughter which you havent seen for years because of your jailtime and she wants to have contact with you... of course you can also follow the lust route with her - this is where the game ends for now.

(review for Act 3 P2 Beta)

I really like the variations in the models and the renders are overall good. The story is pretty standard, but it gets the job done.

My main issue is how the sex scenes are handled. The animations are pretty bad, tho they to get better. The real issue is that the scenes always end so abruptly. After you cum, it usually just skips to the next day, with little dialogue among the characters.

I was also disappointed with the length of Acts 2 and 3 (I know Act 3 is only in part 1). There was a lot of setup in Act 1, but little "rewards" in 2 and 3.

I would still recommend it even with my complaints, and I'm looking forward to future updates.

This game is well made and it has a believable story, so I give credit to the Dev for that. There are even some touching moments when the Daughter enters the story later on. The emailed letter was very nice touch.

However, the first act is way too long and could probably be cut in half. There is no need to go to Jo's Cafe so many times. The story would be much better paced and would keep the readers attention better, if all these redundant scenes were removed.

Also, the strip club scene and Jo's cafe are devoid of customers. This kills immersion and made me feel like I was in a Twilight Zone episode where we were the only survivors in a deserted City. Adding a few generic people in these scenes would have helped the mood greatly.

The main characters look like real people, not Barbie Doll bimbos, and I have no problem with that. For the most part they are attractive enough. The renders and animations are also not earth shattering, but good enough. The real appeal of this game is the writing. This is where the game sinks or swims.

Fortunately Act II and III are much shorter and for that, much better. The lewd scenes are also more frequent and quite perverted.

A good game, if you can get past the tedious first act and don't mind characters that do not resemble 80s Porn Stars, or high priced hookers .

Well, we waited long for the update, but it was well worth it. What I miss is info as to whether or not you have knocked the girls up, like pregnant or not pregnant. Great story, keep it up.
I wonder when will see the MC's ex and her lover, and that bent cop too.
The daughter will soon make her appearance, maybe she has the evidence to put all 3 behind bars. Looks like we are going to see a lot of steamy situations in future updates, just keep them cumming.

There are some five-star reviews here, and and there are some 1-star reviews here and I don't think either are accurate.

The good, lots of love interests, lots of content that is optional and avoidable to allow players to curate the experience to fit their interests, so you can pick and choose who the MC fucks.

The bad, while you can choose who the MC is interested in or at least have sex with, he will still make comments that make you want to hurl. He is a Gary Stu master of all trades, so girls just throw themselves at him. The teenage girl subplots are gross when the MC is 50, personal preference, and while I try to avoid them, the MC will still say and do things that I heavily dislike. The plot also is "ex wife is bitch, me big strong man, i show woman my big cock, ooga booga", and there are tons of other games on here that do that.

I like the effort the author put in, I like that he actually does give you choices in a visual novel, a lot of times you will get 3 choices and they all lead to the same spot in some of these games. I don't like how the MC acts even if you try to steer him away from certain paths. All in all, it's an a-okay game, you will get your rocks off if you want. I don't think it's nearly as good as the reviews say though.

I played through once all the way to the end and I did enjoy the game, I do find certain elements such as how everyone interacts with you to be one dimensional however, they all essentially like you and act towards you in a positive way.

You're a middle aged ex-convict, with thinning grey hair on top, that's reasonably buff for a 50 year old, you aren't James Bond or Rico Suave.

As of right now there isn't any incentive or opportunity to manipulate a situation as everything falls neatly into your lap. It would be nice if there was some nuance in their characters which would encourage you to act in certain ways.

I would like for there to be distinct elements of sneakiness. Mothers seem oddly positive and agreeable to the idea of you boning their daughters, I want to use them or avoid them to get to the daughters. I'd also like for there to be some potential seen or unseen risks or costs towards pursuing certain women.

There's enough variety of women to appease most players. You have a gilf, college aged girls, a selection of milfs, trashy strippers, high school aged girls. They're all have their certain charms but none of their characters is at all strongly defined.

I like the premise, I like the story, I like the design of the characters, etc. It's a good game with bags of potential, but as of right now it feels just like playing an elongated demo which is an accurate conclusion to make.

If built upon significantly it could be a genuine 4 star game and not a game holding the provisional 4 star rating that I'm giving on the caveat of it's potential, here's hoping that the needed development comes to fruition.

version: Act 2.01 Beta

well im gonna rate it as a porn game. there were some interesting and unique premises with loli tag, i liked it, the eroticism was done alright, there are many scenes repeating with increasingly more sexual tension and progression, it's a VN tho so you don't have to click anything. im gonna be honest i was just trying to check the game out so it was one of the few instances when i didn't read story at all, i was just skipping to sex scenes so it won't waste my time if it's bad, but it was good, i read the parts around sex scenes and it was fine and erotic imo. i guess in the future there will be some mother+daughter action. (you are not related to them... so far)

i will give this a preemptive 5/5 even though there are no real sex scenes with majority of characters but many scenes which are just teases are very hot and fappable imo.

On of the best modern (3D) Ren´Py VN that exist!
A good and multifaceted main character
A lot of different Girls and Woman of all ages
All with a nice storysline
A lot of "Slap Stick szenes" which let me laugh out very loud

This game can only have one Rating! Excelent! 10/10

(Review of Act 2.01 beta)

This is a game being developed concurrently with A Dark Horse Riding and they both share some characters as well as visual style. Just like ADHR it's strongly story driven, with limited sexual content (for now) though it does have its share of spicy situations and LIs are varied, from lolis to older, 60-something ladies. This would usually be a 3* because of the lack of sex, so-so animations and too much repetition of the daily routine (coffee shop...), but I'm adding a star for a believable story centered around down-to-Earth, everyday characters that never gets boring. And maybe because April reminds me so much my favourite girl in The Unit

Rating the game a 2.9 at this point.

I decided to download and play Act 2.01 Beta, despite knowing the developer is splitting their time between two games (and so much slower updates happen). And basically encountered what I thought I would:

++ Enjoyable story - really made the MC a believable character who is likable
+ Decent renders visually, though re-use makes them stale over time (see below)
+ Some fun love interests (although some others are actually ugly)
+ Decent scenes, some of which are animated well (though short)
+ Good controls over LI names and ages, along with customizable nicknames

-- The MC's daughter is a primary love interest in the game, and we haven't even met her through the end of 2.01 Beta
--- The story is GLACIALLY slow with love interest progression. Don't expect much.
-- Heavy (and I mean HEAVY) re-use of renders at certain locations, like the coffee shop, or a neighbor's apartment. It is done cleverly, but really wears thin after the 50th time displaying the same render.
---- Despite being ~8-9 hours long, the game has virtually no sex (penetration) scenes. I counted 2 with one LI (who is rather fat), and 1 with another LI. There is a decent BJ scene other than those three, but that's all the game has after 2 acts outside of rather boring handjobs sprinkled in with a couple of LIs.
---- As mentioned up top, development time is split between this and another AVN the dev works on, so future releases will be few and far between. Knowing the rate at which the game is progressing with the LIs through 2 Acts, that means it won't be finished for MANY years to come.
--- I VERY much disliked that one of the female tenants in the apartment building took sexual advantage of the homeless girl the MC took off the streets through kind acts, BEFORE the MC had any chance with her. She was one of the LIs I had hoped to see a scene with, and felt deprived (and a bit betrayed by the dev) when I saw her getting together with a female tenant. I don't mind girl-on-girl, but the MC should have had FIRST dibs on her. Very poor choice there in my opinion.

Overall, what was there felt good, if just far too slow to progress with the LIs. It was unsatisfying from the perspective of how few scenes we had with the LIs, and right now is more of a dating sim and hangout sim.

If you're supporting this on one of the dev's subscription platforms, you can expect to be waiting years for it to culminate and be released, so be wary and don't expect it finished soon. I look forward to where it is going, but for now keeping eyes on it seems like a waste of time, and I'll simply bookmark and check back in a few years (my original plan).