Ren'Py - Wifey's Dilemma Revisited [v0.84] [3Diddly Games]

Wifey's Dilemma Revisisted is a clunky VN pretending to be a time management game about a cute Asian girl and her husband of convenience.

While I don't hate the story, the presentation and gameplay is just barely shy of reprehensible. The game presents itself as a time management game where you can go to work or hang out with the wife. In reality, going to work basically never does anything so you try to hang out with the wife and if you can't, skip the week. This is not a time management game. It's a VN with more clicks. There's a couple of options in a menu between "actions" but they're basically never utilized or updated. It's a pretty worthless system, but not a complete dealbreaker.

The story is there, but basically a sideshow to the sex scenes. Essentially, wifey needs a job while she lives in hubby's house and works as a bartender or a corporate secretary (who's also a model maybe? It's a little nebulous). Depending on your decisions, she ends up on one path or the other. There's also NTR with her respective bosses, but it's easily avoidable if you aren't a raging asshole or actively searching it out.

Speaking of NTR, this game has some of the most awkward Netorase content I've ever read. If you maintain a good relationship with the wife, the wife will never cheat on but you can still share her with your sex rivals. However, you have to command her to do so and there's an underlying "if you insist" as she accepts. It's pretty fucked up and well...

I'm sensing a real theme with 3Diddly's games. In each game, the girls are just toys. I mean it is a vidya game, but hear me out. The girls are always just sitting there to be acted upon, never to be their own actual characters. They're low in personality, have little in the way of goals, and generally don't do anything relevant the player doesn't tell them to do. Frankly, there's just no attempt to make them remotely human, and that makes them uninteresting.

Overall, I can only recommend Wifey's Dilemma if the art really speaks to you. The sex scenes are tolerable, but generally not worth chewing through the story or manipulating the game's stats to unlock them.

(v 0.37)
As others have already said:
- rather poor story.
- convoluted stat system.
- too many paths and variables. (for my personal taste)
- like his previous games:
+ need to replay several times to see different paths that are not that interesting to begin with.
+ interactions between characters are "robotic". (lifeless, like the author has never had any interactions with any other normal human beings in his life) (which was already a problem in "Sugar Baby Galore)
- Graphically not bad, but it's a real chore to try and play this "game".

I am a big fan of the Dev's work, but this is not his best.

The mechanics are weird/partially unused/cumbersome and the story progression awkward and patchy. It is unclear why she reacts as she does and choices are blocked arbitrarily because you don't have points in some obscure category that no one really cares or talks about.

It's unfortunately an uninspired story that doesn't do anything new with flat characters. Meh.

I'm guessing the ntr path is what takes this to another level.
as of now, going on the vanilla paths, it's alright.
I haven't seen too many games where the mc puts down/defeats (no deaths involved here(yet)) one of the rivals written to ntr him in the true route. So that was actually surprising and nice while the wife losing some love for the mc here is too hollywood goody goody.

Either way, the game isn't too appealing to me so I might not check for future updates.
Yeah. I'm done and out. Didn't check anything new. Just made up my mind.

Not one of the games I recommend. Not because the content may not be what you want. The content you want will probably bore you unless you like most of the content I did not like.

It's hard to really judge how good or bad this game is simply because the initial premise makes my eyes roll.

So you're a lad, you've been simping over this girl since high school. She doesn't give you the time of day and goes off dating other people, just living her best life which is fine and all. But suddenly she's about to get deported so comes to you and straight up, with no preamble says "we should get married".... like..... what?

No discussion over what to do, no reference to the other boyfriend apart from "oh we broke up" or literally any of the other boyfriends, just straight into "we should get married." and not only that, but she even goes "we can have a fake marriage" just in case the MC was in ANY doubt to what she feels about you. Lad.... tell her to boost and go live your own life.

It really hammers home the stereotype of being friendzoned which is enough for it to be two stars. and the MC bites her hand off like a colossal virgin. Lad, have some self respect. Not to mention in the first real dialogue you as a character have with the girl there's a lot of internal dialogue about you trying (and failing) to not look at her chest. She's wearing a low cut top. Jesus Christ lad. There's an option to remove your portrait from any of your dialogue. I'm assuming this was given as an option to ensure players wouldn't see the MC's massive neckbeard.

The premise is interesting, fake marriage and all but it's ruined by the introduction of the girl, who's obviously not into the MC in that way and the absolute wetness of the MC. And really, what chance has any game got when you're introduced to two characters and both are awful? Oh sure I'm sure the MC can simp enough during the game to make Mei love him to make the marriage real and all but really, given how it starts, why should the MC even want to try and win her over?

Ren'Py - Wifey's Dilemma Revisited [v0.30b] [3Diddly Games]

I must say @3Diddly, this up date is wonderful and your game quality is so much better with the diverging paths is so much better then your past game. You truly are a role model for the way you code you game to work so well! I take it you have testers before release to make sure it doesn't have glitches with each update? Or have you gotten so good at your coding that's no longer a worry lol?

I honestly wonder how this VN will end and how many paths will be possible? Main thing is never a full on cucking only path for the NTR/cheating path. There is a possible path but you don't have to touch it, unlike many similar games out there. Where they are 90% or more cucking when its NTR. You seem you have that almost perfect balance to the game.

You almost have made a perfect game when it comes to story plot, how the coding changes the dialog depending to choice and so on! Why I say almost is it's my opinion, I can put money on it someone will say I'm way off the mark within a week of posting this and that so and so sucks and this needs improvement.... But honestly I simply say now that they are wrong to me as your making almost perfect game with this to what I know other people make and what I have played. Also in comparison to your other games made this one is by far the most refined one you have made thus far!

Anyway keep up with the mind blowing effort you do and hope you keep making games forever lol.... Although I guess you possibly might get sick of it one day, just hope that never happens!

I honestly look forward to the 3Diddly universe's future.

fun game. defo has potential to be a top game as more content is added.

actually has choices and branching paths unlike a lot of games on this site

hard to find decent ntr on here so if you're into it.. you'll be happy with those paths. other paths are available

WDR (version 0.24)

A really nice game with the premisse of a green card marriage. A woman you went to school with and had a crush on, she liked you too but you never dated before, needs a green card to stay in the country. You marry her so she can stay and who knows what might happen with you two now...

There are several major routes you can take, from pure romance (with and without serious competitors) over sharing/swinging to voyeurism, cuckolding and fullblown NTR. It is even possible to take a path where you and your wife are good friends but date only others, but this defies the main story logically.
WDR is a hidden gem you should test out.

Some points
- Even in this rather early development phase a lot of replayability due to several distinct paths
- Routes for those disliking NTR and those loving NTR, partly with subpaths
- Your Wife, Kati and Tanja are great and hot character designs
- Graphics can be cute, hot or tension-filled, with nice details like licence plates on cars. But graphic lovers be aware that outside the characters, you will see much standard DAZ stuff.
- Your Attributes, traits, work and friends can have serious influence how the story develops! For instance some events are only available with the right combination of attributes, traits and aquaintances. Depending on your chosen route, you also might need to prevent the gain of certain traits, keep aquaintances at arms length or bringing them in closer.
-Due to the relative early development phase, some areas of the game are clearly visible work in progress, e.g. most workday actions can be skipped without problem for the main routes.

v0.24:
Good:
- Decent amount of content for the version count, and the various paths differ enough for plenty of replayability (a few hours if you actually read the story).
- Multiple paths available for both NTR-lovers (both willing and unwilling) and NTR-haters.
- Choosing a starting job changes certain actions available to the MC (this could be fleshed out more, tbh).

Bad:
- Graphics aren't very competitive with a lot of what's out nowadays.
- Dialogs seem to be forced, stereotypical, and devoid of emotion.
- Stat gains seem arbitrary. Very few opportunities to raise the physical stat alone, and if you choose to work for the company that starts you off with +10 in every stat, there's absolutely no point (in this version of the game) to bother raising any of them, defeating the entire purpose of the mechanic.
- Lots of day skipping, and very few actions available. Basically just spend time with the LI or snoop on her (if you choose the job that allows it).

I happen to like NTR so there's that.

This game looks nice, plays nice and is nice.
The updates seem to be coming regularly and while short, there is quite some stuff to play if you are starting a new game. The choices you make matter for the story. In one replay wifey is ignoring me, in another one its almost as if it isn't a green card marriage.

Either way, I really look forward whenever htere is a new update.

and i can wholeheartedly recommend this game.

Excellent slowburn and well written. When this game was first introduced I was lukewarm. But the additional content has made it really good. I always prefer a slow burn and this provides just enough tease to enjoy it.

Spoiler review, be warned.
Hey seriously what is wrong with these developers? Another game in which the MC sees a piece of naked flesh and sprints off to beating the meat, until I shudder.

After literally a while I started to skip the narrator, the MC thinks this, the MC thinks there, the MC thought this, the MC tries not to look at the breasts, every time you see the MC of course your name is displayed. So the narrator is telling you thoughts that you don't have and are mostly creepy xD
Another one of the examples, describing what happens, the girl invites the MC to sit next to her on the bed, the camera moves to the bed and the scene changes and the narrator sasying us, MC sits on the bed next to the girl, thanks captain obvious xD

Great portrayal of the relationship with the first woman, MC confesses to her then they see each other once every few weeks(this sandbox system is a complete failure here) by the way she goes to work. He picks her up from work and is so excited to see some skins because her outfit that he runs to the bedroom to beat his horse once again and gets caught xD
Not to mention that they went dancing and then he beat his horse too.

Let's summarize because at this point I'm ending my adventure with this production.
The story promised to be interesting, unfortunately the protagonist is a terrible cunt. He behaves like a horny 15-year-old.
The point system makes no sense, I don't understand why to do max stats if every time before you can get another point you get another point to raise the limit.

Graphically the game is okay, I don't know how the animations are because I didn't make it to any of the sex scenes, except for the dirty visions of the first girl as he whipped his penis, but I skipped out of embarrassment very quickly, so I don't even know if there were any animations there.

Overall fucked up all over in my opinion.
Deleted, forgotten, recommend to avoid.

Very fun game similar to 'my virgin bride' (starting line and at the basic premise, inspired the later?). The art is very decent and certainly enough to be sexy, the writing is sexy, teasy, and interesting, the characters are easy to follow and remember, the corruption moves fast enough to not get dull but slow enough that it still feels realistic, there is an interesting scheduling structure that feels like it will unlock a lot of potential, there are choices that feel somewhat meaningful to the game... The NTR part is interesting in that it seems like it will set up for a hotwife scenario instead of just cuck (which is awesome, more of that is always fun), though can't tell for sure.. I will be curious to follow this game as it gains even more depth - totally worth checking out

A proper game that elicits horniness alongside a good storyline. With proper options to choose as well. Aside from that the snooping mechanics that is added gives a very attractive option alongside future possibilities about the story. The only downside that I'll ever mention will be that since it's a game in progress there just isn't enough stort and content available yet to play.

The game is good, and the bad thing about this game is that this game is still too short. the main wife is a banger and its funny that the other job option gives you the option to spy on people (probably your wife). I am not a fan of some of your games because of the unavoidable things, but this one is actually good with the ability to influence your wife and also the choice feels more impactful. don't care about those people that cant even read or be bothered to read the dev notes you put in and keep on making this type of content, I wish you good luck and more fortunes to come in the future

Good start! The main character is very attractive and a model type that has caught my attention since previous versions of this game. Renders are fine. I've played several games from this dev and they're all good, I hope this one has a lot of content and a conclusive ending.

v.18 Review:
NTR is about destroying an existing relationship and watching it be degraded and defiled. Same for a girl who is pristine, beautiful, courageous, and most importantly YOURS to be served on a silver platter by your worst arch enemy.

In this game, there is barely any relationship as your wife doesn't seem to care about you, and the reason she works at any of the 2 companies is quite bogus and weak. At best your roommate is having sex with their real boyfriends and you're a stalker.

In the latest release, the game diverges into 2 paths. Both paths are NTR but different flavors. One plays on BDSM, dom vs sub. Another plays on Black fetish dominating your White boy's girl.

As a narrative experience, both routes are weak. There's simply no relationship between you and your wife. She is simply your roommate, and goes to just "cheat" on you without much of a choice. Each route has a "sharing" vs "no sharing" component, so there's probably 4 sub flavors of text.

All the choices in this game is fancy for "Yes I want to get cucked" or "Yes I want to share my 'wife' with this guy". There's simply not nuance. Yes, I want to see this scene. No, I want to see this other scene.

At best, this game is average and whatever here has been done before, like 95% of games.

Meta:
So this is the same creator that made Sugar Baby Galore which has this exact problem for me. The girls are shallow sex slaves without personalities. Their entire personality revolves around your sexual preference. They don't have agency. They don't feel like real women. That game is still better than 70% of the trash we see here.

Positives
1. Cute premise of a woman needing status and that's how you "meet her" and begin a relationship.
2. Decent dialog, not braindead!
3. Villain designs seems OK, not ugly bastards. The ex-boyfriend stuff is kinda hot for now but you really need to tell me why a prim and proper Asian immigrant girl would ever date a big, dumb, black guy. Give him some pros, rather than just "she likes them bad boys" because that's unrealistic and quite shallow. You want to tell me she dated him but only stroked his cock? I was all over my chicks tits and ass as a teenager. Either way, she would never share those details with MC when they're on their first date.

Con
Big missed opportunity; could've used more research. Those who failed to renew their visas would've had employment. A US company needs to prove that they've tried to hire from within the country but failed. This means massive leverage from the company side (NTR baddie can exploit this since Mei cannot leave the position without getting kicked out of the US). Since MC and Mei married, there's no obligation for her to stay employed with an exploitative company.

A better plot would be your romantic interest is being blackmailed / raped while she's on visa. She's scared to tell you. And your win end goal is to marry her and free her from the predicament. The plot doesn't make much sense if they're already married.