Ren'Py - Witch Hunter [v0.23.3] [Lazy tarts]

v0.16.1

Brief-A game based on the WITCH series where you corrupt the (aged up) heroines. A great premise, some interesting scenarios and overall good art is somewhat let down by grind, design and imperfect translation. If you like the look of the preview, it's worth a download if you use cheats.

In depth-
Story: Good start with built-in lore gives a strong setup to the game, it's nice to have an unrepentantly evil MC for once. I think the developer really needs to work out the motivations for each character and go from there, as it is they keep changing from update to update. This is most obvious in that the MC starts seducing the Guardians then abruptly decides to blackmail them for no discernable reason other than opportunism. He blackmails one girl threatening to expose her criminal boyfriend, then lets said BF die without trying to secure her loyalty. It's hard to get invested in the story when your MC is making such nonsensical decisions.
The English is subpar, although never incomprehensible. It just seems like the translation from Russian has left in a few typos and a whole lot of awkward phrasing. D
Art: Probably the strongest part of the game. The females are realistically proportioned, fairly unique and some sex scenes are very well done with a gallery available. My main quibble is that a few of the faces seem a bit "off", especially the main LI. B
UI: No major complaints given that I'll whinge about the battles in the next bit. Bulk buying would be a welcome addition. B
Gameplay: Grindy and railroaded. Definitely use the cheats to escape the money grind, and I'd recommend using the console to cheat through the repetitive forest battles. For a grind to be enjoyable there needs to be a sense of progression, but other than going up in levels for combat, there is none. Something like equipment or powerups is needed and the bookstore minigame needs to be shorter (but just as rewarding) with only 1 shoplifter per shift.
Quest-wise, at the moment you just follow where the exclamation mark leads you to the next quest. To make it feel like there's more choice, the character plots would need to be available concurrently, rather than the current situation of being forced to pursue one character for a while then completely forgetting about them. E (or D with cheats)
Discretionary: Despite the above concerns I did enjoy playing this game and the latest update seems to be a step in the right direction, with actual choice and plot developments. This, combined with my belief that most of the issues could be remedied gives me hope. A
Overall: 3 (4 with cheats)

The game is pretty good early on, pretty awesome art , but I eventually find myself giving it 2 stars , it fell from my expectation later on. The Combat is tiring and somewhat annoying when leveling or gathering materials. The grind can definitely take up a portion of your time in the game which to me presents another con. Then later there are scenes I wish that have alternate endings to, like Alchemy's. Handing her over to Phobos and sending her to get fucked by others, feels like ntr/ being cucked out of a character which felt annoying. It felt like it forced and I just felt disappointed in the game. The entire part became another con. It would have been better to give a option for us to choose maybe a different route. Maybe give us a route where we don't hand her over, you can still keep the other route as a choice for others who like that, but a different route to make it not seem so forced. Also the corruption tag, doesn't really fit into this, its more coercing them into it. Elyon scenario isn't corruption since your not corrupting them forcefully. I know that the game is still unfinished, so there is a good chance that it could still be changed. Hopefully alteration could be made in the future, until then I would suggest holding off from playing it, if you find the cons less appealing to you.

A really solid game so far. Content wise its also packed - I'm playing for 4 hours straight and still not at the end of the game.
I like that we play as the bad guy, who uses corruption on the girls around him to achieve goals. When some guys crosses our way we often have the chance to get rid of them for good ha - love that!
On the downside: MC is at times a bit a goofball and he got surprised from one of the girls and teased around (which is not my kink), but all around hes ok and not a wet noodle. Blackmail is used and rape is also not a taboo! YES! Don't excpect romance here.

By the way the graphics are unique, I like the drawing style! The game really looks good and is fun to play altough its sandbox. Im not a fan of sandbox, but you can always look in questlog to see what the next step is. All the places to visit next are marked with an exclamation mark on the map.

All around so far a good game!

Review v0.16.0.4
Cute art dragged down by a messy plot and grindy gameplay along with at least one gamebreaking bug. Highly recommend playing in cheat mode. 2.5 stars.

Gameplay wise: A very boring point and click game with pre-determined choices that offer no variety for the first 70%. Definitely NOT a sandbox.
(I recommend turning cheats on to see events, I did about 15 mins in when I figured out the system and the devs probably know how draggy their older system is by making cheats available from the start)

Story-wise, pretty sub-par with characters acting pretty unnaturally, although the premise of wanting to see some corruption did manage to keep me engaged.

Probably would have left it 3/5 since I did play from start to finish.

HOWEVER, the newer stuff towards the end like with Will and Susan, is simply fantastic. Finally some real choices AND they are well directed and drawn. If the content was simply(or built like that) that it would be an immediate 5/5.

Unfortunately, I am here to rate the whole game experience not the latest patches, so I'll compromise with a 4/5. Definitely will keep tabs on the progress with the remarkable improvement.

Too simple, but very good for a demo. Would love to see it more fleshed out with Elyon's story. Her not just going a long with it that easily. But that's just one mans opinion.
Again for a v0.15 this is pretty good.

Probably one of my favorite games on this site, it really captures de spirit of the original series, it is a real good game all things considered, also the art is fantastic somka and his team really made me want to watch the show again

version 0.15.0.03
This is a parody from the cartoon W.I.T.C.H. but "a little bit" more adult-erotic setting, well , way more than just a little bit. The developer decided for the genre of corruption/blackmail/fooling the "heroines" in the game but not focusing in any genre in particular but rather just being evil , i must add that there are levels of evilness in the game, in early developments the actions from the MC (main character) were a little bit extreme, but in the last updates there are choices to make the consecuence of his actions not that extreme, which is a nice touch , being bad or being extremely bad, if the game is focused in the actions of the bad guy, i think that is the way to go.

As gameplay is a nice touch that the developer added game mechanics to give some variety to the game, there are not many but is a nice touch that the game is more than choice number 1- 2 or 3 , it is a little bit sandbox and has simple combat mechanics,also there is a little bit of grind , but i think is well implemented because it is not very hard to get what you need, it is there to make play a little to advance in the game.

the art of the sex scenes is really good, and recently the developer is adding a very decent animations, i think he is going to animate all of them due that 2 last updtes animated old scenes, but i just guessing.

One thing to undertand is that the game is about a bad guy triying to "defeat" the heroines in not a honorable way, so dont expect altruism choices in the game.

The bad thing about this is that the game has been arround for years already and it has a very slow development, but definetly the plot advances a little bit each time, of course one of the main problems is that the plot is ussually rewritted which means that old saves ussually does not work, but in the bright side this allows the developer to "fix" plot issues that comes with later versions. i dont thing this is an issue but some people hates NTR, and there is some in the game, but like the others genres it uses like corruption or trainer it is not focused in it so for those who does not like it, just give it a shoot.

it is a good game and the developer, although sometimes takes ages to upload new versions, improves the game every time ,(there was a couple of times that the plot made non sense because the main chareacter became a "i dont want be be a villain anymore" just because, but with the rewriting he fixed it.

Give it a chance and if you like it support the developer if you can.

[Review of v0.15.0.3 on 3/27/2022]

This game is frustrating to me. It's good... it's just, I'm still frustrated.

On the one hand, I love corruption/blackmail/male domination/female submission stories, and this is very handily one of those. The artwork is serviceable, very reminiscent if not directly inspired by Akabur, and the writing is also just good enough to make the scenes better for having it (...some occasional grammatical issues and typos notwithstanding). I haven't watched a single episode of whatever show this game takes inspiration from, but I understood the characters clearly and roles that they play in this world, which made it easier to enjoy the scenes as they occurred.

On the other hand, this is a Ren'Py VN, which is about as common as ants in an anthill on this site and among porn games on the whole. Even judging it by its own engine and genre limitations, this really isn't cutting it in the gameplay department. The extent of your gameplay for the first 3+ hours will be following the exclamation points to each scene; nothing opens up simultaneously, and there's little incentive to play the money earning minigame of Witch Hunter outside of getting through specific money-gated events. Don't get me wrong, the minigame is actually kind of fun at first, but being that it's the only way to make money, it grow tedious pretty quickly.

Additionally, this barely qualifies as a trainer-lite game as of this version. I only unlocked the ability to actually train a girl in the last hour or so of playing, and the options were... well, they were limited. Everything was fine as far as the scenes themselves, but the last option I was able to see was the very first blowjob scene. Neat, and hot, but by the time I'd seen it, every other girl had already given me a blowjob, and one of them had even licked my ass.

A lot of this will almost certainly come out in the wash of further development. Lazy tarts' work here isn't bad, it's just clearly still a work in progress. You can definitely jerk one out to it, but don't expect to finish.

Fantastic art, writing is pretty good as far as these things go. Developer updates in a timelier manner than a lot of other devs, especially what with the craziness going on in Russia right now. There's obviously some issues but at the end of the day, it's a porn game, and a pretty damn good one at that.

Let's start by saying that are a number of things I *personally* don't enjoy about the game (NTR for example), but I will try to keep it as neutral as possible and ignore that.

First of all: broken english, the dev should really get someone to proofread their work because it is painful to read. I am not a native english speaker myself so I understand the struggle but Jesus, at least try not to google-translate everything.
Not being able to clearly figure out the dialogues I just played the game skipping almost everything and probably it was for the best since, as I have happened to read, the plot is not the best either.

But let's talk about the only thing that prevented me from giving one star to this game: the art. The artist did a *great* job here, I really liked the style.
The animations are pretty simple but quite enjoyable too.

I sure hope the dev tries harder for this game, I will be waiting for future versions of it. Best of luck, I hope I will be able to give it 5 stars in the future.

Excellent game.

It's been a few days that I'm playing but I already love it. The Dofus reference and others references got me hard lmao.

I don't even remember the last time i've played a game til the morning, the plot is nice and the humor as well.

I'm putting it in my favorite list!

Keko Approves. ♥

v0.13

the art is fantastic. seriously amazing art.
old saves keep on breaking.
they keep on breaking because the author keeps on retconning scenes.
he keeps on retconning scenes because people correctly point out colossal fuckups.

the game has become a jigsaw of retcons that do not quite fit properly. As nobody did a full playthrough to make sure all the stuff works. This results in some nonsensical scenes. Like where you spend all this time seducing a girl until she consents to have sex with you... then suddenly you are raping her.

you play as a bad guy... who in canon was a treacherous self serving cunt. In this game he is illogically loyal to his boss to the point of self detriment, and the detriment of the waifus.

Your boss is afraid of his sister claiming the throne that is rightfully hers. So he sends you to depower the girls of WITCH by seducing them so he can kill them... And you just go through with it instead of seducing them for your own benefit, helping them kill your boss, and becoming the new king with a harem? why?

I suggest just using a gallery unlocker for now until someone can confirm that this game has been fixed up.

I started this game with high expectations seen that the art on it was really good and it is one that I personally enjoy a lot.

At the beggining I was having fun, it seemed like it was going to be a bit of a grind but I was expecting that already. What I was actually waiting for was to have any say in the matter of how you approach the girls since most of them seem to trust you or even like you. But you don't get to choose.

You are forced to be this prick that rapes or almost rapes every girl there is, it just does not make any sense to it but happens anyway because it seems like the writer of this game does not know how to start a sexual encounter without forcing it. Boring as hell, grindy as fuck and everything else went away as well when this path seemed to be the only way to play the game.

TL;DR: only reason this isn't a 1/5 is because the art is good and it could be to the liking of some other people beside me. But imo is a mediocre game at best.

Edited as of ver 19:
My curiosity overcame my earlier conviction at not playing this again, and to be honest I am pleasently surprised. While still an asshole, the mc has finally turned around onto a "good" route. He's taking steps to fix his mistakes that he's made and so I am giving this a revised rating. Cant wait to see the "team" kick some ass.

First of all, as of version 0.14.0.2 there are missing tags that need to be added. Primarily (PROSTITUTION, SHARING, and arguably, NTR). Can be quite misleading for new players so dev definitely needs to update Genre tags asap.

Secondly, while i do appreciate the artwork, typically games like these offer a "good" route (kindness to your girls resulting in a more positive ending/relationship) and a "evil" route (enslavement etc) which leads to a darker ending/relationship. This game unfortunately seems only interested in forcing you into a "dark" route which frankly doesn't interest me and so as of the latest version and the events that happen in it I will be passing on this one. I wish the dev good luck in future endeavors.

Fun game for sure, good art and it seems the dev put a lot of work.
Not really fan of the training mechanics (NTR), but the game compensate with the rest of story in some way.
Its good enough to keep an eye on it and see where it goes.

I saw this when it started, and let it be for a long while just so I have more to play and whooooooooooo boy~! A lot sure has changed! Some for the better, some for the absolute worst.

The bad:
Unavoidable NTR
I'd usually only take two stars from that, but being a fan of the source material means the disappointment is greater. Three stars off.

And anyone saying otherwise is delusional; Alchemy is the player's, and you have to give her to someone else. No onscreen penetration, but you have to let her "train" in a brothel. Fuck that shit.

Elyon and Will, the first two girls, hasn't had squat for four years. A beej and thigh action respectively, and that's it. Another star off.

The good:
Everyone else of the main cast and more has had a lot of progression; I'd give a star for that, but I'm a Will fan so that kinda just drives the 2nd negative harder. Still, that's good for fans of other characters and those without preferences.

There are a lot of other minor good things, like mechanical improvements and some gameplay animations -- but the rating system doesn't allow me a concrete way to represent that, and the bad are bad enough to eclipse the good.

If your a fan of the W.I.T.C.H cartoon/comic then this is a must play. The game has VERY nice artwork and the character writing is funny but also feels true to the W.I.T.C.H brand. The mini games are pretty standard but fun in there own right. Nothing ground breaking if you've already played similar games. The game has a weird thing were music will just NOT play in moments I feel it should and the writing is a little wonky with grammar mistakes but nothing game breaking. The only real problem that I saw from others is apparently the game takes a while to get new content added. I played the most recent version [v0.12.0.4] so not only did I have all the content thus far but I also don't have any experience with the pre reworked Elyon (yes it's Elyon not Elion like the game spells it) content as this game was soft rebooted. I know some liked that content but I never played those versions so I have nothing to say on which is better or worse.

FINAL THOUGHTS: If you like W.I.T.C.H play this game. If you have no experience with the franchise then this game isn't gonna blow you're mind but is still solid. As I am now up tp date I hope the games updates don't come as few and far between as others have said but for this version I give it a 4/5.

Perhaps one of the best games there is. Some dialogues are worth something! I am delighted!
Drawing is very pleasing, just high-quality drawing, which is pleasing to the eye.
Beautiful, busty girls for every taste and color. It definitely feels like the creators have taste and intelligence. Respect


Of course, of the shortcomings (for a comment to the game administrators), the following can be distinguished:
1. No breastfeeding. It is very sad. Highly.
2. Few perverted poses.
3. I would like to be able to fully do the whole spectrum with each heroine: blowjob, sex with breasts, anal and vaginal sex.

A solidly decent game. The art style is good and consistent and the scenes are entertaining. For the most part, the narrative is pretty good too.

I'm docking it 1 star for two main reasons:
1. Slow updates/progress on the game.
2. Lack of options/scenes with certain characters.