Ren'Py - Indecent Desires - The Game [v0.25] [Vilelab]

Updated: I've tried multiple times to go back and play using the walkthrough and the game is a dissatisfying mess. The introduction is perfect, if it stayed a VN this would be a 5 star game. Unfortunate that it is the classic example of how Sandbox ruins a game and destroys a narrative.

I really liked this game when it was just a visual novel, once the developer chose to open it up to be a sandbox game my interest died. There was too much grind and sitting around trying to figure out where to go next. No game should REQUIRE the use of a walkthrough to figure out where to go next. A game should be able to be figured out without a lot of clicking from place to place to find the next tidbit of story.

Pros: Great Renders, Kate is my favorite render in any game so far.

Cons: Sandbox completely ruined the story experience for me. Where before I was progressing with the narrative and learning about the Aunt and cousins at a good pace the story peters to a halt when you enter sandbox.

The game can be amazing; but Dev has to choose one specific way of gameplay. It's all over the place. One minute it's straight forward VN, next it's jumping all over the place with different time and place system without any direction or hint. The models are amazing. Only the gameplay style is holding this game back. Hope the Dev can make it better in future.

Doing good at the start with story also with good render until it change to kinda sandbox thing. Then the story just decent and that sandbox thing just make it more annoying to play. If sandbox game are your kinda game play it.

Started off promising, but that promise dies quickly. Somewhat interesting characters and story idea instantly devolves into pointless empty sandbox wandering.

This needs to be said to far too many game developers here:
IF THE PLAYER REQUIRES A WALKTHROUGH TO FIND EXACTLY WHERE TO CLICK NEXT TO ADVANCE THE STORY, YOU HAVE FAILED AS A DEVELOPER.

Needs a major rework, not worth the download as is.

Started as a perfect renpy game with exceptional renders (Monique one love), and than became sandbox without any progression after a year in production. Developer keeps adding new characters and makes money by selling the renders to patrons for 20-40$ each, without adding them to the game.

Just treat the game as an artist advertisement that will make you to buy artwork from developer. That is all it is.

I think its great. The submissive scenes are great. More please! Ok, now I`m just typing to type, but the game is still great. In my opinion. And deserves a better rating. So, this. I hope this project continous, good luck with it.

Hot women and amazing renders of them with solid animations but that's about all this game has to offer. It's a total chore to even find those renders and animations, everything about this game is simply bad except the renders sadly.

No content that is interesting. Has yet to update the storyline with the main girls at all . Simply boring and I’m not trying to be mean I liked the game at first but now it just seems like it’s not going anywhere anymore

I tried playing the game since it became a sandbox. I think I managed to get through 50% of the sandbox content...maybe, but after that I literally fell asleep. It was a very nice and promising game in the Prologue stages, now it became too slow and boring overall for my taste.
Shame, maybe I'll revisit it when its completed until then ---> Recycle Bin

There is a lot of good in this but it can be hard to get bast the constant back and forth of thoughts and actions. it's a neat idea it just makes parts of the story grind to a halt. A lot of it just feels like filler to pad the time out on the game, or just have some of the time in thoughts trimmed out so it did not feel so padded.

Review for 0.007, I started a new game and played until I dropped the game for hqporner.com because of the lack of erotic action (played for like 130minutes and skipped big parts of the staring dialogue becuase I played an older version alread)

This game is confusing me.... the premis and story promises are somewath generic but have potential. I like the blackmail route for the maid and how many characters are linked to it... thats about it tho
For some reason my game always crashes when I want to check on Sarah on Thursdays (I had this problem in an erlier version and couldnt figure out why), why is that? I cannot progress the story for that reason.
Also getting money is extremely stupid if you don't open the console to increase it (totalMoney=99999), why would you even implement that into the game, nobody wants to do stupid memory games, it doesn't add to the story and makes me wanna switch to a game where I don't have to grind...
In my opinon, the intro is nicely done and the game loses lots of steam when you have to start clicking 100 times to get to every room in every location to talk to every person in the game to maybe progress the story... some highlighters would be a nice addition.

The renders are good, high quality, good lighting and angels, this is the best selling point of the game, which is a shame.
The repeatable scenes are nice I guess...

I want to give a max 2.5 Stars rating aminly for the Aiko blackmail route and the really nice renders but I can't and am in a bad mood so 2 stars for you

In my vision of an adult game you should not have to spend minutes on end doing nothing, passing ingame weeks just going to the gym 3 times while doing nothing just to get robbed.... get a gun and then fucked by a tranny. This ammounts in like 20minutes of decreasing player arousal with no payoff in the end. Hence i stopped playing.
So for the future add more erotic content, eliminate grind, increase quality of life and make the story progression easier to understand (maybe add a hint button for the different paths)

This game needs an NTR tag. Also why are they all so terrible to the maid? Story is confusing, are they all prostitutes except for the older woman and doctor? Apparently they are students too, very strange and incoherent circumstances. Feels like a game made by someone who has never actually lived in the real world for even 10 minutes. Good renders though.

Confusing as hell. It seems good from the start, but after a while there's no obvious clues on how to continue the game. The game doesn't even have the thing that's pretty much standardised in these games, the small buttons at the bottom of the screen that help's you easily navigate the the different rooms in the house. Here you have to "walk" around in the house, check all the rooms, again and again, just to see if there is someone or something to interact with there. There's no journal or anything that tells you where to go next. At least not that I could find. My last save is from July this year. Back then I hoped the game had updated and changed things. It hadn't. Today I tried playing it again from that save, but still no improvements. I have no idea what to do, and where to go. It just feels like a huge waste of time.

Review is based on 0.007 build. This is the case when I can't tell did I like plot and gameplay or absolutely don't like it. Ok. Plot, gameplay, rendering, animations etc in general is NOT bad. But i have very conflicting feelings.
In this game is implemented just a terrible movement system-uncomfortable and too boring.
The only known way to earn money (And you need a lot of money) is a boring mini game that you have to win many times. I was gonna rate this game on 2 star.....
But after 0.7 I changed my mind. So- 4 star only for transgender content! Yes! (Keep that in mind if you're not tempted by such things) The developer is on the right track. Keep up the good work

For 0.7

This started very well but went downhill after the free roam was introduced in 0.4 i believe. Free roam is very clunky and annoying and is just put in a manner that make the story and events totally chaotic. If the dev would quit this free roam bullshit, game would be good; story and events are interesting, girls look very good, lots of things would be overall enjoyable and entertaining.

Good Points
+ We have good loking renders.
+ We have good looking characters.
+ Our sex scenes are animated and they are not just static images.

Bad Points
- Our plot story is not well written and have a lot of plot hole.
- Story itself is pretty empty and not interesting nor well written.
- Playing this game is realy confusing and i cant say its enjoyable at all, so you gotta use walkthrough for every step of yours while playing which makes game pretty boring...
- IU (HUD) desing pretty bad/annoying. Even for just going your room you gotta click a lot of button and there is no list shows which place is which one, so for finding even your own room you gonna remember where it was.
- Animations could use improvement for physics and quality.
- Its developing since 2018 and we dont have nowhere close content for 3-4 year of developing time at all...

For The End
This game needs a lot of improve but most important and clear one is VN mod, which would make game more enjoyable, but we didn't get that for years and i dont think we gonna get in near future either...

To grindy no content in most of the rooms most of the time, whats with the attitude from the aunt, and whats with the attitude towards the maid, and this idea that they will just pimp her out to the old man, started out good , but crashed fast ,
no need to even follow its progres

This game is a a lot better than i expected. I really enjoyed playing it and the models are GREAT! It shows that much thought, time and effort has been put into designing the characters. Yeah, the story isn't wow, but when combined with everything else it sure adds up to a great game. And the amount of foot fetish content in this game is really appreciated, at least by me. It's a shame that yet another game was off the radar just because there isn't a foot fetish tag on this forum.

An in game objectives screen would be a lot more useful than a walk through pdf for each update. Also some music and sound effects would really add so much to the game.

It gets a 4.5 from me.

Keep it up dev!

EDIT:
Well I have to be honest I'm really not as hyped about the game as before after the update V.0.7. I had to lower my original rating from 5 to 3 because of the lack of in game hints! Seriously it's way too confusing and ridiculously time consuming!

I can't progress in the game smoothly without having to check for a walkthrough or spoilers in the replies on the game's forum, and there's a chance I don't find what I'm looking for without having to post and ask.

Don't get me wrong, I still think the game has some of the best renders and the story is still promising when you can actually find a way to progress in it. (And the foot fetish tag/content is a huge plus for me)! But.. It needs major fixes.

I really hope the DEV implement's an objectives list or some kind of proper hint system. Might as well get rid of the whole sandbox shit and add some free roaming here and there but definitely not the current setup, because as of now, the game is unplayable for me. Which is a shame, I was really looking forward for this update.

To start on a positive note... the highlight of this game is excellent renders - absolutely gorgeous models!
I know many games now have great models since character gen software is getting better all the time, but the models in this game have been customised very well, and some of the models are outstanding!
(Monique in particular - top left corner of the opening post pic)

Not so good is the story and the MC's scripting.
The story plays out like a mediocre daytime soap opera. The characters are all quite good, but the plot... it's DULL!!

As for the MC... for a guy that is supposed to be smart enough to get into an elite university, he really is thick as shit! He's not just naive or awkward talking to women, he only ever seems to think with his cock, possibly because he doesn't have a brain in his head.

Why do I care about this?
It's very hard to get into a game or VN if you are playing a character that's an idiot, and you're steered by dialogue and options that make you swear at the screen because its just so stupid.

The bad... no, make that the totally fucking dreadful, is this VN is a sandbox type game (or should that be kitty litter tray type game) with a very limited number of interactions that happen only at certain times. No random events, nothing to do at all but search blindly in every location for that one character in that one location that will help the game to progress.

Developer, FFS, put a hint system in the game!

As other reviewers have said, without the walkthrough, this game is a frustrating waste of time.

Simply terrible, abysmal content for a game with updates that occurs monthly, counter intuitive gameplay, without a walkthrough you'd be spending 99% of your time playing this looking for what to do with little to no clue on what the hell you're supposed to unlocked the story / events. Don't bother downloading this unless by a miracle the dev decides to implement at least some QOL improvements and a little more content for each update. On the bright side the models are looking really good it's just a shame this is wasted on some shitty ass gameplay that also has the luxury to be grindy on top of that.