Ren'Py - Witch Hunter [v0.25 EX] [Lazy tarts]

[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.

Edit: 8/30/2022

Lots of work done since then, loads of fixes and the combat is much smoother. Art is always 10/10. Few hours of content.

The reviews initially were bad because of how early it was I guess, but personally this is 5 stars. Don't let the average 3/5 stars fool you.

Great story. Exceptional art style and pacing. There is no need for walkthrough or mods. Good UI without bugs etc. Big content updates. Definitely recommend to play even if you tried it before, since game improved a lot!

Haha, very funny, there is no time limit indication on one specific dialogue choices, and the game kills you if you don't read fast enough.
the artwork is decent enough, that's the only good thing I can say about this one.

I liked the W.I.T.C.H. cartoon show when I was a kid and seeing that there's a porn game about it really made me very interested in it, but seeing 3 years of literally no progression is just infuriating. There's no excuse but the total lack of talent and passion of the author (as a porn game producer)


Well, will start from the positive - it has a very good art style. From background to characters, everything looks very close to the original and makes sense as the porn game. The only reason you actually should try this game is the gallery, even if most of the scenes are not animated.

Gameplay aspects though are not that good. Actually, they're far from it.
The only word I can describe it with is "boredom": we're just clicking stuff, seeing dumb dialogues which have no meaning behind them, sometimes play mini-games, or even participating in battles - but nothing of it is actually entertaining. Quite instead, I wish I could skip them all and get done with the game as soon as possible.
The writing of this game is maybe even worse than its gameplay. "Killing" Elyon's parents, giving the grow-up elixir to the little girl to have sex with her, Nigel's suicide - they all aren't justified at all, even if the point of the game is to give the experience of playing the badass villain. Nothing badass in it and nothings that people admire in villains.

And the most annoying thing for me is - that's all. That's everything I can say about the game which was 3 years in development. Seriously? And for these three years, there's no indication of it getting any better. This is terrible. Some authors for 3 years can make a game with way more content, a lot more comprehensible writing, and more interesting gameplay.
1/5 - Terrible.

nice art, development kinda slow, hope for improvement, i didnt watch this cartoon so im not a fan in that regard but found story somewhat enjoyable, dev bet highly on blackmail, the way of getting money is kinda atrocious - looking for books on shelves and memorising where is every book every title so u can say customers of there is or is not book they are looking for, other than that i look forward to development

The game itself is nice, but authors are slow as fuck. There was something like 15-17 unique scenes during the cource of of last two years, and half of it was just a simple non-hentai slice of life.
Also, too much time was simply wasted on rewriting Ellion's plot. The original where Cedric causes her foster parents to get in a car crash was okay as it was. Sadly, due to revrite few of her original sex scenes were deleted and can only be found in galleries on of the hentai sites where they post game rips. Ellion was also aged up in new sex scenes to the point of looking older than some of the milfs of the series. She used to look like an actual 18 y.o. teen back than.
There is also a HUGE problem with save compatability between versions.
You dont want to grind for 3-5 hours (even with cheats) just to unlock the new stuff every time it comes out, and due to picture. And if you just unlock gallety by mocking about with game code using Notepad++ you get no context for scenes, and fapping to them loses half the charm.
If it wasn't for the last problem, I would debate between good and exelent despite slow speed and content cuts, but as it is now - average.
Edit:19.03.2021
Last update didn't have save problems, so uprading mark to good. Still needs way more content trough. And again, all new characters in sex scenes looks way aged. That filler character - yeah, she has a body of milf or at least late college student in that drawing style, despite being "18+ schoolgirl". I get that pathreon is a censor happy shit, but you can at least make her look smaller than Cerdic. Also, abduction option would have been nice.
Edit: 30.06.2023
Nope, the trend of making main cast closer and closer to gilfs continues, and tonns of time is being spend just to change old characters to age the up in any way possible, even if most of them are now looking older than main hero. The speed of updates became laughable, the progression of story that by all intends and purposes is about an evil villain molesting school girls(even if aged up) slowed down to snails pace, and now you have to share some of your slaves with your boss, so basically - an NTR element that wasnt in tags. Im downgrading this to two and most likely dropping the project, at least until its finished. Replaying the entire game each time author decides to put a new wrincle on Will or remove anything controvertial, or make minor changes to the interface just isnt worth it.

The art is VERY GOOD...but sadly, after a major change this is not a trainer anymore...i know it happened a few updates back, but now Elyon is just like all the other characters. You're not "slowly corrupting" her anymore, it's just BOOM let me fuck you. The idea behind corruption is the slowly (or fast, depends on game) PROGRESSION from kinda prude to slutty/eager, achieved in multiple step. The first versions of the game got it right, she gets convinced to show boobs to you for more money, then strips more...and so on. Kinda like Akabur's witch trainer Hermione, a progressive "do ut des". This was the case back then...now, Elyon is just like all the other characters: no step-to-step corruption, just plain coercion into instant blowjob/fuck or istant "you gave me a place to stay, thank you let me blow you".
It's a pity cause the art is one of the best this site has to offer...but the "gameplay" (if you can call it that) is just a number of clicks and grind needed to get the "leverage" used to coerce the girl to do you.
Not my genre, sorry, i preferred the earlier version. This could just be a comic/manga/doujin, there's not really gameplay aside from the grind.
Still giving 2 star because the art is amazing.

TL,DR : This is COERCION, NOT CORRUPTION (somebody else pointed that out too), there's NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and the gameplay is quite linear.
The Art is amazing but isn't enough to call this a game.

This game is awesome. It does something that many corruption games doenst do: It knows you are playing a bad guy, it knows there is no way a good guy in the standar idealization of the word would do, and it shows you the consequences of your actions. The game develop the story from the bad guy perspective even better than some Rpgs on steam, im not kidding. If you are just here for the tiddies, you will have your share, and the art is beatifull. But if you are here for the phantasy, for a really good and really fucked up phantasy, with blackmail, abuse, slavery (actual slavery, not just the ''oh yes master more!'' kind) , and literal teenagers drove to suicide soo you can bone some witch ass, then you too, my mood kindred, have found your share.