VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Freeloading Family [v0.32] [FFCreations]

A visual novel that is actually finished?! With several endings!! What is this? Bizarro land? AND A HAREM ENDING?!?!?!?!?!!!!


The game follows the protagonist who, naturally, has a big dick, and uses said dick to fuck any women who comes along. There isn't much plot here, the game focuses more on the characters. The dialogue skates on the edge of being too drawn out, some editing could probably tighten up the script and help the game a bit.

Visually this isn't an impressive game, but it serviceable none the less. Oh and there are only a tiny number of animations compared to stills.

As for the sex, its all pretty vanilla, with a little bit of spanking, light bdsm, and squirting to lively things up, but that about it.


Overall I think its an OK game. Harem ending is great. 7/10

I wanted to like it more than I did. It's not entirely without merit. Visually the game is fine and I liked the girls - though maybe more for their vibes than because they're actually well written.

And the writing generally speaking wasn't even that bad. Spelling and grammar was all over the place but it was generally legible and I think there was the foundation of a decent narrative, but I wasn't pleased with what was built on that foundation.

I think by and large my issue is one of pacing. The first two thirds of the game were kind of meandering but I'm fine with a slow build if if it pays off and I don't feel like it did.

It kinda feels that like they got bored and rushed an ending. It would explain the increasing frequency of time skips toward the end and why the big drama kinda just disappears almost as soon as it were introduced. Ultimately I didn't outright hate the ending, I just wish that last third weren't so rushed.

Good game, despite being a little dated - first release was over 6 years ago. A few good endings, a couple disappointing. A couple endings took much longer to come out, because a writer had left, but a new one came along so it could be finished. Great story overall.

The story is fun; not very original, but with a lot of cute and fun moments. The girls are diverse and fun so it is really a good time to play. For the sex scenes, most are very vanilla and there is no animation, so one could say that's the weak point.
Also, I felt that from some point, the desire to end from the author/dev is quite perceptible, and it starts going very fast, in a way I would call "too fast" for the story itself and especially for the aunt story which seems like almost cut from all the rest of the story. Even the big "final" sex scene (for the "everyone path" doesn't include the aunt (for story reason okay but...) and nothing is really done after it to give her a time to shine in her own as the other girls did. In the epilogue, some girls get a new look for time passed, and it's good, but not used enough, and no special sexy time to conclude.

So a good journey but with a perhaps inferior ending trajectory? Hence 4 stars

plot was was thin nicknames were used on the wrong character Mel called nile at the from of the Cafe at one point. charicter points chart didnt seem to be working. did enjoy the sibling back and futher till the beach scene was boredwith it from that point. other 2 girl charciters I enjoyed but Again I dipped out from the beach scene after the firt bowling arcade date.

I think theres others vn that acomplished what Freeloading Family tries to do, that doesn't mean it's a bad VN. The LI have are well written and the dialogue is decent. The renders are good and all, but the little sister it's my least favorite of them all, not the worst, just not my coup of tee. I think my biggest problem is how the story develops, especialy the time skip, kinda breaks the flow of the story. Besides that I like the endings, a vn with a nice enough harem ending it's a win in my book.

Freeloading Family is (or at least tries to be) a pretty balanced game in terms of dialogue, romance and adult content. There is basically no plot here, it's more of a character driven game. We spend time with different girls and build relationship with them. There is enough amount of buildup and romance so relationships with the girls feels pretty believable and organic. We have 5 main girls here, every one of them have different, very distinctive personality. I would say all of them all pretty good and loveable characters. The nice thing here is that, all love interests and MC are a group of good friends. Banter between them is really good and you can feel they generally like each other. Very nice dynamic in this group. What i didn't like about the narrative was the time jumps. Only in the first half of the game we already have few time jumps and in my opinion there are completely meaningless. They add nothing to the game, after 2 month time jump literally nothing changes, we still are in the same exact spot as we were before. They technically serve some story purposes, but that mostly affects things happening offscreen and without MC input. I only did one ending; the harem one. It just makes sense to keep all your close friends together. It was ok, but nothing too crazy.

Visually unfortunately it's not good, even for 2017 standards. Back then we already have games with better looking renders and models. And sadly renders quality doesn't really get any better as the game progresses. I contend only one animation. There is just not enough sex scenes for a 10+ hours game. Two out of five main girls, excluding endings, only have like 2 or 3 scenes. That's just not enough. And the sex scenes in general are not that good, the dialogue is nice but visually game is severely lacking and thanks to that adult content is not very entertaining. All this leads to Freeloading Family being not very good fapping material. Only one music theme looped for the entire game and no sound effects. This could be better.

Freeloading Family is a pretty solid game in terms of writing, dialogues and love interests, but with quite disappointing adult content. Around 30 scenes for a 12 hours long game is not much. And visual quality is pretty bad, even for an older game. Ultimately the game is better then 3/5 but worse then 4/5.

This games has 2 things going for it. The first one is that it has one of the most beautiful LI models you'll see in the adult games (which are also accompanied by mediocre sex scenes). The second one is the story which started to take itself seriously somewhere along the way and managed to give a thoughtful harem experience rather than usual Pokemon-like sandbox approach. It is one of the rare times I played through all characters endings never losing interest and even wondered if (without spoiling details) some things happening in one ending also happened in another because they really colour your perception of relations and actions. 5/5 just for giving me the same fulfilment after I finished the game as after watching a good movie or reading a good book.

To be honest, I have a hard time rating this. There are definitely parts that I really enjoyed, but it was never anything new or special enough to hold my attention for any length of time.

I started playing this game months ago and only finished it today because I always quit after a short time and started playing something else before getting back to it, only to repeat the whole process after some time.
It was simply not interesting enough.

The characters are all ok, but nothing you haven't seen countless times in other games. The sex scenes are also only ok, they look good, but they are neither interesting nor really memorable. Not much to see if you are into more kinky stuff.
And the story is not really a story. It's slice of life in the most basic level. Again, ok, but not more.

And the ending was honestly a big disappointment. I'm not sure if I just missed a lot of options (I'm not even sure that's possible). But the ending feels like an overrushed mess, unfortunately.
I was just getting into it more, than time jump into time jump into choose your ending.

Overall ok I guess. I had some enjoyable moments, but I don't think I will ever revisit this game.

Story started pretty good and I liked the characters except for the aunt. I really believe that the game only got worse with her introduction and every time she was on scene. Why the hell would I be given the option to reject her advances multiple times just for the game to basically force me to fuck her anyway? This is some major league bullshit, for real. I actually hated every second she was on screen.

Also, the MC is straight up an imbecile a lot of the time. Ignoring calls from his father for 3 months and not text even though MC himself and Alice keep reminding him is a very strict man with a military background and expecting no consequences, not putting two and two together when his father says he should expect some company soon and encounters the front door unlocked but still act surprised when there's someone home, and not even offering condolences to the aunt when she gets there (even though I dislike her) even after Alice does.

The game also doesn't have sound effects and just keeps playing the same song on repeat from start to finish, which after playing some games with amazing sound work, just comes off as a con to me nowadays. The renders are good but the animations are lacking a lot as well.

For some reason this is one of the most memorable games on here for me.


Characters are probably the reason for that. The girls' models are gorgeous, and their personalities are wacky yet relatable. They have some depth, their own motivations, the whole shebang. So this is very much character-driven, which brings me to my next point...

Story isn't the main focus. As the title points out, you're living freely in your parents' house with just your step sister. There aren't any big goals or mysteries. You go to school, you meet people and that's it. But those people are pretty fun, and...

Graphics are so satisfying. Don't know if its the models, posing and whatnot but it just clicks for me. Check the screenshots and judge for yourself.


Recommended for anyone who's okay with reading romance-novel-like games with a bit of crazy (looking at you, Melody).

Bland and boring is all I can say about this title. The characters (except the crazy blond) and the situations that they are in are unimaginative and forgettable. The graphics are passable but nothing to write about. The sex scenes are short and uncreative. There is nothing to this title that you didn't see done someware else and done much better. As a matter of fact it's so bland that I didn't manage to finish it and dropped it at around half way point. Dont waste your time with it.

2 stars for being finished and for graphics being ok but really that's all I can say good for this title. Really it's better to try something orginal and fail then be this bland.

JESUS FUCK. I WANTED A SEXY STORY ABOUT SOME GUY FUCKING HALF THE CITY AND I GOT A LIFE LESSON.

Not one. TWENTY. I heard some stuff in the comments about the endings not being what they liked and whatnot. Trouble in development.

I don't care about any of that. This virtual novel had some EXTREMELY good romance scenes and really heartfelt sex scenes, so if you like Porn with a Plot, this is for you.

But after the wild days and the father came back, the Porn died down A LOT. But the romance? The feels? Fuuuuck me. After Ending 1 I couldn't stop crying for 2 days, and while two of the other endings felt a little shorter, I was super pleased with how the sisters ended up in their own endings. Mel? Come on. COME ON!

My personal ending is Ending 5, because the MC is a saint of a lover and they all deserve the best possible person to guide them in their lives.

Technical stuff:
Pros:
Renders are amazing
Story is great and apart from ending 5 which had some typos, it was all great to the end. THE GUT PUNCH IN THE MIDDLE!
Lets you choose the kinks you want to engage in, has lots of sex and good pacing with that.
Might've ruined me for the rest of my love life.

Con:
Might've ruined me for the rest of my love life.

If I can find one of those girls in real life and not fuck up immediately, I'll live a long, happy and peaceful life. Thanks for this experience.

I'm going to give this one five stars just because of how much I personally enjoyed it. I will admit though there are things about it that might bother other people.

If I hadn't played through all the individual endings I might have just given it four stars. That's spoiler territory though so I would recommend you not click on the spoiler tags, ButI would like to break all four of them down and say what I liked about them or didn't.

Before I do that though if you haven't played this game I would say it is very much worth it.
There is a lot of reading though and some running around, but the conversations are fun and sometimes insightful.
You'll have to be ok with people joking around a lot and dancing around what they are really feeling though. At least that's how my playthrough went.

As for the quality of the renders these are some of the best I've ever seen. Very good on all levels. I would say Alice and Melody are my personal favorites in the looks department, but every other character is no slouch either.

I'm going into the endings now. GO PLAY IT!





There is one more ending that I did not do, but I won't say anything about it.
Great visuals
Good story
Great to meh conclusions

Damn !
This guy really knows how to make gorgeous models. Very few devs come up with great models.
I wish he could get more revenue for doing animation. Animation was the only thing missing.

There are other shortcomings like fake choices but 4.5stars just for the models and story.

The story it self was pretty good but got boring in places but not to bad to stop reading. The girls was hot but the sex scenes sucked. The romance was good and you have choices but those choices mean nothing on the endings. If you didn't want Alice flirting with Karina to bad the Harem ending shows she ignored your decision. The ending solo and Harem had nothing to do with your choices you made in the story it's like the Dev didn't know how to match your choices to an ending so he made his own endings no matter your choices.

The latter two thirds of the game are better than the first third. It seemed the story telling improved, largely, so I assumed the Dev either hired additional writers or they went out of their way self-improvement style. It would have been nice if they went back to improve the first few chapters to be, as relatively, in depth as the latter.

There are, however, so many spelling errors and inconsistencies with grammar. Even half way through the game I thought about making a mod/addon to correct them all. Which is a shame. Though, don't get me wrong, I do like the game. Just wish it had some TLC and thoroughly proof-read. Yes, I know it is, essentially, a porn game or what have you. But it is still jarring, at times, to see such errors so frequently.

The time between the Father coming home and the start of the epilogues could have been expanded. I think that is a point of contention for a few people here. But, for the endings themselves? Well, let us get the "bad" out of the way. Alice's ending. Whilst I love that she ended up marrying the MC it still is a bit weird, to me, that they continued the poly thing. Sure, inviting a third into the bedroom, once in a blue moon, is fine. I think adding a third as an actual girlfriend undoes the work of the epilogue prior to it. Personally? I would have put in a choice before that. To go either with a monogamy route or a poly one.

However not adding the random woman as Alice's GF. It is obvious that Leah would have been the perfect choice. Akin to coming home to realise, after all that time spent away, that she couldn't live with out both the MC and Alice and vice versa. That would have been better than having a threesome then discarding her, entirely, a few sentences later. This is why having an editor, or a second set of eyes, to look at things is important. To see if it flows and makes sense.

My personal favourite endings are both Leah and Melody. They hit home hard, with me, especially and I certainly was not dry eyed by the end. So I have to congratulate the Dev on those there. Let us just say my own life was related to both of them on the story arch level in the epilogues.Even for an 'adult' game if you can, some how, make something relatable... if only to a slight degree. A slice of people will love it just for that. Memories, and emotions, are a powerful thing. I don't, generally, self insert.

I tend to read AVNs for what they are. As if you are watching a film. So kinks, in games, don't bother me as it isn't about me. Though if a writer can make me emotional by making it relatable... Then they have done something great. Only a handful of AVNs have a brought a tear to my eye. Needless to say, naturally, it is not the draw for such games - Just lovely when done properly.

I liked the Harem ending. In many ways I liked that is was pseudo open ended and clear that their lives had only just begun.Though there is a part of me that wishes it would have gone deeper and had a few more "A couple of years later" moments. But, that is just me.

As for Susan? A plot device, for sure, though it would have been fantastic if you could ignore the other girls and simply have two routes with her. One of lust and one of love and to finish it off with her own epilogue of her and the MC after college living together. Or something along those lines. But that would purely just be wishful thinking as, again, merely a plot device.

Hailey? Well, what can we say? Poor woman. Though by the end of things she is in a far better place, thankfully. Her inclusion to the Harem epilogue was a nice touch. I think she would also deserve her own Epilogue of Hailey and the MC living together lovingly. Out of all the girls, Aunt Hailey needs a happily ever after type scenario.

For the reasons above I can't give the game a 5/5. Quite a few easily rectified issues still persist. But, to me, it certainly can be a 4/5 and reside in my top 15 AVNs list. Which is no small feat.

didn't like the random start where the girls throw themselves at you or the absence of corruption but i get the dev has to show something fast to get patreons specially since its his first game, the middle is really good you get to know more the girls, aunt and leah sister show up and then it ends, not really rushed but could be longer, also alice's seduction should be more focused and slower, since she is you step sister

I played this game a long time ago but recently downloaded the update with the harem ending. This is honestly one of the greatest stories that i have played so far. The characters are well created and you can feel an emotional attachment to each of the girls due to their individual backgrounds and life stories.

I highly recommend playing this VN.

Malice

Loved this game. All the females are stunning. The writing was great as far as I'm concerned. I actually felt for most of the characters. I'm going to miss playing this one. It was so nice and I loved that all the endings were great.