Ren'Py - Witch Hunter [v0.24] [Lazy tarts]

Every update is fantastic so far. Even if I sense that they are short. Or maybe is just because I like the drawing and animation so much that every time I want to play it more and more.
Also the story is interesting.

Version played: 0.20


Just some quick ramblings, don’t expect me to spend the time to write about everything or actually make it short:


Story wise it’s pretty decent, I have 0 experience with the original work but it works well on it’s own it’s definitely a porn game, with a bit of a slower start but that is perfectly fine. Does it always make sense, no but it works for me and is not an endless wall of dialog. So I would call it serviceable.


In terms of length it is reasonably long and doesn’t seem to overstay it’s welcome, the story is progressing along nicely without overstaying its welcome, that being said it originally started in 2017 so it better have a decent amount of content by now. Reading the changelog, don’t expect a lot per update.


Visually I do think the art is pretty decent, the girls do follow the same body plan, a bit more variety in the models would have been nicer. But at least it is somewhat original art and that is already a large step up. The visuals are also pretty consistent so I calso can’t fault them here.


Content wise there are a decent number of scenes and later on it ramps up quite a bit. Pacing could be better though, as the beginning is rather barren.


In terms of game play this is where everything kind of falls apart.

Starting from the beginning on the first day after the introduction you need to go to some cave. This objective is nicely highlighted on the map, only catch is you have to skip wait til evening and unlike some other games the highlight is there, even if you cannot complete an objective at time. Yes you could play the money making mini game instead, but why should you, at that time you don’t need to make money at that time.

The moneymaking mini game is pretty bad and takes a whole 2 minutes every time, cheating really isn’t a bad option.

After doing that objective in the evening, you have to skip till the next morning again, only to get your next objective, for you guessed it the next evening. This gets a bit better later on, or you get used to it but remains an issue.

Combat and other mini games are not great either. The combat has a lot of RNG and is generally pretty mindless and dull.

Another thing to note is saves are not compatible, there is an option to progress to the last update, but not to other versions. I personally just follow the updates once a game makes significant progress, so I tend to skip at least a few.

One of the best porn games I ever played. Beautiful original art. The game used to have some bugs but it is much more polished now all though not ready but getting there. Game play is the only aspect that is not really for me but there is option to skip it by using money cheat and then you can just focus on story.

The game is good at creating problems, but bad at delivering sex scenes.
I had to spend hours in bad minigames and forced plot twists to get to some sex stuff.

Minigames are bad.
- In bookstore you have to be lightning-fast to find some books while shooting thieves. And most of the time theft happens when you have a new client and you accidentally skip their request, and then have to ask again. Also, many requests need IRL knowledge to complete, like knowing comic book publishers (hint: its not only marvel and DC).
- Fights are even worse. Wait for loading - get beaten by an evemy 2 levels above you, repeat. But if you manage to levelup to lvl 10(max) - you'll get stunned, loose a few turns, miss your hit when attaking. Everything happens really slow, you have to wait a few seconds before next turn. Health potions are unaffordable at low levels and useless at top levels. Even on max level (10) - your health will be lower, than your enemies and you need mana to cover the gap by transforming into snake, but you always start with zero mana.
- Board game. Trow dice poker with completely random outcome. I dont know any strategies to win in this game, so its a money sink, instead of income source.

Quests turn this "sandbox" into a poorly made linear VN. Most of the time you have 1-2 active quests and have to skip time to the right moment, so you can see a small conversation, and then skip time again to trigger another. So, its basically a VN, but with added chore of skipping time.

Sex stuff - its just a static pucture most of the time. Some of them are animated, which is alot better.

But the art is good, story is ok, and I havent run into bugs. So give it a try, maybe you will like it.

Grinding 10 glands from a mob when your combat system is literally spam one button and wait for the loading screen? No warning game over dialog options? Yeah, no, fuck this. Devs should stop padding their weak updates like this once and for all. Or was it some kind of grand artistic vision? Yeah, no, fuck this twice if that's the reason. Respect players time a just tiny bit.

A great game an interesting story and nice visuals. It can start of a bit slow and the static scenes early on and can seem bland. However, once you get to the mid game and the newer scenes, the art goes from ehh to amazing. The devs have improved and it shows. The animated ones are the ones you are looking forward to.

One of the criticisms I have is that it can be a bit grindy. But the game does hold your hand and there are ways to overcome the grind if you save scum.

Overall good game with enough story so far and great art that you should give it a shot and support the developers if you can.

Love the art style. For 2d this is some of the best rendering and the story is quite good too. Quests can get tedious at times and updates are few and far between but it's still one of my faves. Can't wait for the whole game to drop.

Witch Hunter [v0.19] [Lazy tarts]
By now the end of the game seems near, so I think I can give my personal assessment.

I consider the game sufficient only thanks to the art style and the protagonist that works well.
Unfortunately, the gameplay is badly managed, just look at the fights where healing yourself with a potion is only a way to throw away the turn (if not losing more life than the one cured).
Or a quest where you have to take a certain material (several times, I don't remember the number but many times) from a randomly generated monster, so you have to click and hope not to waste too much time.
Despite the not too fun gameplay, I still recommend the game, which all in all does its duty.

Would have been way cooler if it was in a visual novel format rather than a sandbox, but hey, at least there's a gallery mod if you're into that. The story feels kinda meh to me because I'm not sure if it's sticking to the original "Witch" series canon that I've never seen, or if the author just made stuff up and crammed it in there. It felt like the game was going off the rails, especially after I got halfway through the story. Some of the character conversations felt forced, and there were these awkward sex scenes like ntr or sharing that you couldn't even avoid.

On the bright side, the art is actually pretty good, and there's some decent music in the game. But here's the thing, it's been in development since 2017, so I don't know what took so long. The hand-drawn graphics are alright, I guess. The game description promised multiple endings for the main character, but as of right now, none of that is actually being developed. You'll make some choices, but they mostly lead to the same outcomes.

Great game! A fascinating story, memorable characters, good direction, cool ideas and beautiful scenes.

I would like to point out that the game at least tries to give the player a choice, to be a bastard or a good guy. It's very nice when the game doesn't lead us by the nose, making us hostage to the character of the main character.

Well also the cartoon on which the game is based, I loved watching as a kid, because of this nostalgia made my impression of the game even better.

The only thing I can point out the bad is the battles with monsters...Even the game on cheat fashion, you have to mess with these bastards! It's boring, tedious and drawn out. Although these mini-games make you take your dick out of your hand for at least a little while, letting your bro have a little rest.

I'd also note the rather large variety of fetishes. True, there are very few kisses in the game, especially considering the romantic scenes...

The game was made by a russian, and I also russian (from the translator reviewed), and playing in russian, all the dialogue looked pretty good. And I can admit that the dialogues in English can be delirious.

But regardless of your opinion to the game, you know, dude made LITERALLY the best game of Rus.game building over the past 30 years, and it's not a fucking joke!

For the cheat mode, a special respect!

Another game that doesn't get the importance of balance between lewd scenes and text. This game throws endless amounts of text in your face without giving you anything in return over the first 1-2 hours.

The mini games are absolutely no fun to do, but you need to do them in order to earn money or progress with the story.

Eventually I got "stuck" in fight with a character that I apparently by game design can't win. The fight just started story wise, but my character doesn't deal enough damage - I got no healing potions,no skills and can't escape. So all you're left with is autohit until you die.

Since I saved in that fight, my savegame basically went into oblivion, I can't continue the game anymore. Which means I quit the game today, I won't replay all of that. The game should prepare fights that can potentially send you to game over better.

Anyways, as always before I quit games that didn't manage to entertain me long enough I do peak into the gallery and see what I'd have unlocked otherwise by playing: The art is nice, but there's only like 3-4 animations, everything else are super short lewd scenes that completely consist of 1-2 pictures. Yes, I am talking about literal pictures, not 1-2 frames moving forth and back.

So for instance if char X gives you a blowjob, you get ONE picture where she does that, the same picture with cum added and that's it. Which is a shame because the artstyle of this game is really nice, which it gets the 2 stars for.

The story also is absolutely stupid and the fantasy world / setting isn't explained well at all.

This game is one of the best on this site.
I really don't understand why people are not happy with it. There are so many games on this site where the tags it has are meaningless because it basically doesn't exist or is executed horrible. Here the fetishes really hit. The blackmail, the corruption and others are done to perfection.
The art is very good, the story progresses nicely.
I just used the built in cheat so I didn't have to grind.

If you like the tags, you have to play it.

Wonderful game with high-quality graphics, and an amazing storyline, had fun playing it and will recommend anyone interested in sandbox-like games to play this, it's not just another read dialog al the time kinda game you actually have to explore, I like a challenge and it doesn't feel like a grind.

I have no idea the source material it is parody of. But I still enjoyed playing through this. Even with the grammar errors in English it was still understandable and was an interesting story. The bookstore minigame is a bit grindy for money but also is probably the most creative one I've seen for a Renpy game.

My only complaint is that Cedrick's snake form's dick is brought up several times and you never even get to see it let alone see it in action XD. All in all definitely worth the time downloading to try and see if you want to support it.

Brilliant game, great animation, amazing story that keeps you interested. Definitely in my top 5 adult games of current times. Never seen the original cartoon that this was based on but as parodies go, this is a quality made one! *****

[v0.17.0.1]
So, you have notably two events where the game goes out of its way so that you can choose to keep a girl to yourself, which your character themselves notes they want as their personal property, but then if you do, you are eventually blindsided and forced to give her to your boss, and train her for your boss, being forced to fight 10 monsters, before you can fight another monster, all to give a girl away, or it's game over in at least 4 different ways? Before giving her away, you are literally given at least 9 different choices of what to say, but are forced to choose the 3 consecutive choices the game forces you to choose, which gives her away, or it's game over if you choose anything else.

Yeah, that's some BS right there. NTR, Netorare, Netorase, Cuckolding, "Sharing", whatever you want to call it. It's cuckshit that the game goes out of it's way to force onto you without warning, after letting you think you didn't need to worry about it. This same character can be thrown away earlier so there's no plot driven reason to
even do this. It's just insulting.

On top of that the writing and plot can be inconsistent and out of order. For example, one character claims her parents won't let her do something, but at this point in time her parents could have been long gone (and were in my playthrough) making this a plothole. The MC can also change from character to character to the point he'll go out of his way to rape a few, but go out of his way to date a few others. Whatever the writer wants, he'll do, including being a plaything for some girl he just met, when he could literally make her disappear or be his sex slave. Things he's done to others.

There's also times where the dialogue misses a word, but nothing that detrimental, and fortunately the only thing that's untranslated (that I've noticed) are a few pictures that you can optionally view in a porn mag.

Combat is also annoying, and to be frank, I don't see why anyone would want to play this game without cheats in the first place. Even then, though, combat is still annoying. Missing at times and being stunned so you can't move for a turn, will never be fun to me.

Overall, The writing and story isn't really anything you won't mind skipping through, the gameplay is just clicking whatever the game tells you to click, and apparently the little player agency there is, will either be mocked or ignored later on. At the end of the day the only thing that makes this game notable is it being a parody and it having nice art. The animations are also fine, so 2 stars. 1 for being playable at least, and another for the art.

There is little content, the content itself is very weak at the level of 14 years, the plot is also not interesting. The characters are boring, the gameplay is too.
It's not bad drawn, but the dialogues during sex scenes are just garbage.

Great game! just lost hours of progress due to it having some kind of "time limit" in some decisions and the main bad guy just killed me giving me a game over with no chance of going back to that decision. Tried to start again and one of the main quest was bugged! making impossible to advance in that save. But I suppose im the one to blame since I didn't save so often, right?

The art is absolutely gorgeus, and the writing is not bad.
However, the game is nigh unplayable without cheats, the story might be a little too dark for the taste of some people and the worst part is that the corruption element is very poorly managed, tbh. There's just one girl you can corrupt, which you can't really do until well deep into the story, and not only does the corruption have very little options from the beginning, it does weird jumps from the girl being uncomfortable with you seeing her tits, to her totally naked grinding on your dick.
Another pretty disappointing fact is that when you get the gallery unlocked, you don't get a reenacting of the event, but a few images of the intercourse, like just the different frames, no text, no nothing else. So if you can get off just by looking at those images or if you enjoy this kind of game as structured as it is, it's for you. Otherwise, not really. A shame such incredibly hot art is not accompanied by a good system to play.

I love the art and of course the story. While the story been quite linear the passing feels great. the corruption of these beloved characters is well done. Im greatly impressed by the mother-daughter scene and twin-girl scene well done.