VN - Ren'Py - Innocent Witches [v0.11 Alpha] [Sad Crab]

Keeping the review short (until major future updates)

Pros :
Great artwork.

Cons :
Poor Story
Lengthy, repetitive & confusing gameplay
Very less content

Note to developers - It'd be nice to remake the game with a better story with proper gameplay elements. You guys excel at artwork no doubt, but need other areas to take care of.

The visuals and interface are top teir, but pulled down by on overly long convoluted story and very little H content. This game has promise, but is currently not worth your time. Developers need to reduce text content by 50-75% and spend that time on H content. If they did, this game could rival Summertime Saga,

Low sex scenes amount but great quality content. Maybe would required a "fap pass" options to skip the story tho. Overall recommended if you are willing to play a game and are not looking for immediate sex scenes.

Well, since everyone is already bashing the game, I though I might as well tune in and do the same.

The only saving grace of Innocent Witches is the art work, which is truly astounding. I can't recall seeing a better drawn game, and I personally think all the characters are gorgeous.

In all other aspects, though, the game is terrible - there's no other way of putting it. The dialouge is extremely tedious to read, and it's not even well written. It seems like you're supposed to catch a bunch of underlying allusions, which are not obvious in any way, shape or form. This makes the story unbelievably confusing and difficult to understand. In general, everything when it comes to writing and story-telling is just a load of wish-wash.

There is next to no sexual content in the game. Apart from a scene with Minerva (which was appallingly hard to carry out) and a few images of naked breasts, there is literally nothing. I thought this game was in the beginning stages of prodcution, but learned now that it has been going for over two years. Other developers finish their games in that time span. What Sad Crab have managed to produce in it is so bad that it actually becomes fascinating.

Even the game mechanics are garbage, especially the swimsuit task. If I'm honest, I haven't even been able to complete it. There is no way of ever knowing what you're meant to do, and everything is just covered in an incomprehensible layer of ridiculousness.

I strong discourage anyone from playing this nonsensical pile of awful.

How much is good art worth? Because that's honestly the only positive about this game.

The "gameplay" is straight grind and often convoluted, and the story is illogical at best and INSANELY long winded at worst. This seems like something that started as an adult game and changed into a masturbatory fanfic shortly into development. It feels like they use the "promise" of adult content as a carrot to get people to keep playing. At this point it's a fair concern to think that content is never coming, as each inch of "progression" in the game seems to actually move the MC further from his supposed goals. Maybe in another 2 years there will be another scene worth checking out, but for now it's a hard pass.

tl;dr, there is no content, only grind and very beautiful art. The art is so good I'm giving 2 stars, everything else is worth 0.

Tl;dr: Art is clearly fantastic but of very mild titillation at this stage; everything else is questionable at best.

First and foremost the game-play is a chore and that's the kindest way I could describe it. It sums up to a very rigid, step-by-step, point and click investigation with no real pay off. Worst part being that the majority of the interactions can only be activated/progressed after copious dialogue with some character for arbitrary reasons.

The writing is just ridiculously self-indulgent and as mentioned before, ties into the game-play in a very counterproductive manner. Most glaring example I can give off the top of my head would be trying to use the broom on the window. The titular protagonist will make some smart-ass remark about throwing the broom out the window until you're told you can use a broom to fly. If the protagonist was from another world this would be more than understandable, but no he's apparently been a wizard in this universe his whole life more or less.

The game is clearly suspending the content the vast majority are playing for, with seemingly the focus behind the writer/s being: How can we make the player jump through as many hoops as possible and make the narrative reasoning for this not look hollow. By playing you'll discover they don't have a good answer for that. The story thus far is needlessly convoluted and often plainly nonsensical. As a caveat I'd mention this isn't to say I don't enjoy a good establishment of plot and context before I get to the smut, but when the smut seems to drift further away with progression and meaningless tasks are presented once more; not too fond of my balls being this blue.

The saving grace is the art, clearly, just look at it. The backdrops are inspiring with all the nooks and crannies being filled to the brim with a clear love and understanding of the setting. Character sprites are bursting with charm; a great blend of cute and sexy, which you don't see too often in such high quality.

Obviously I would not recommend playing this: It lacks the fundamentals of enjoyable game-play. The story becomes more uninteresting as the protagonist makes increasingly dubious decisions, that a man lobotomised and suffering from severe blood loss, would expediently find clear and credible flaws in. The art while unique and of high quality, is a veneer over the terrible mishap underneath. Personally I'll just be keeping an eye out on the artists workings, without these other trappings weighing it down.

A serious disappointment. After 2 years of development the only real sex scene is one in the first chapter and the game is now in chapter 4 or something? Which means that everything after that is just pathetic teasing and meaningless grind.

Yeah, there's that too, this game is extremely grindy and slow-paced and there are NO REWARDS currently at the end of this slow pace. None whatsoever. You might get to see a pair of nude tits or two, but that's it.

Save yourself time and sanity and play ANYTHING else but this. The gorgeous art is just a scam at this point. I wish I could get back all the time I wasted on this game but I can't. All I can do is encourage as many other people as possible to not waste their time on this.

This isn't a porn game. It's a fucking exposition simulator with one hot scene. The rest is...nothing. It's hours of doing tasks that lead literally to more tasks. Nothing hot at all. It's horrible. Waste of time.

The game has REALLY missed the point of a porn game. I understand that some games want to build up their porn scenes, and you only really get to the hot stuff after a few hours of game time, but this game takes that to the next level with constant unnecessary dialogues . After mindlessly clicking the left mouse button for hours straight with no real reward, i failed to be entertained at all. Besides the suprisingly beautiful artwork, the story left alot to be desired.

Almost no content, promising game but wasted opportunity. 3 hours of text or more maybe, no sex, no nudes, no erotism, no nothing. Is like an alpha version in a really first stage, for a game with more than a year of work, with so many people supporting and with the all money they invest, is a shame.

It has alot of potential the art is amazing and humor is great but development is little inconsistent and slow I feel the scope could be bigger but that might because it's still in the early stages I'm still looking forward to its completion so keep up the good work

Art is some of the best I've seen off this website, and the girls are all hot as fuck, and if this had a good game behind it it would be an easy 5 stars, but the devs need to focus the fuck up on what matters and actually progress the story and not fuck around with an assistant and achievements and little shit like that and just add content for the 4 girls that everyone wants to fuck. The promise of sex keeps me coming back but after 5 months and 0 story progress I'm pissed and I just don't even know how much I care about coming back. You can't keep coasting off your immaculate art and promises of sex with the girls forever. But, if they smarten up and actually focus on what matters, like some other devs who've had similar focus issues, and they learn that nobody cares about their cutesy assistant bullshit, then this game would be fantastic, hence the 3 star rating

Game features beautiful art and semi interesting characters but lack of any real progress and moderate story is this games downfall. Game devs for some reason trying to make the best looking intro chapters in the world but the story is going no where for probably more than a year. Also no nudity with the main girls and you can only bone an old lady and see some ghost tits. Probably they will move the story in 3 years or so as the devs will polish the shit out of the first 4 intro chapters before continuing the story so come back then.

I'm baffled by this game.

The art in itself is like a masterpiece. So is the one sex scene that has been completed. Going by art, it should be a 5.

But, there are some very fundamental issues with it, issues that are bordering on shocking at this point.

The game has been in development for years. And it doesn't have much finished art. People who like it excuse this by saying that it's a story game. And yet, it doesn't have much story. It has maybe a few weeks worth of writing done. After 2 years. And to make things even worse, the writing isn't very spread out. I guess what I'm trying to say is like, the game has lots of ways of interacting. Dialogue, day and night, time of day, schedules, different girls. And yet, and YET, the story it tells is 100% linear. So you could completely strip out all the gameplay, and make it a pure visual novel, with just a "next" button for the dialogue.

And if you did that, it'd be a laughably short, almost no art, visual novel.

The missed potential here is enough to turn me into a sad crab.

After playing through all the way to chapter 4 I found I had no more patience with this game. There is only one scene with nudity and the game itself is extremely dull and feels incredibly long and drawn out with the lack of anything even remotely adult . If this game ever decides to actually add any "debauchery" like in the description I will replay it but if I could give it a zero I would. There just isn't any content besides a straight linear line.

Game has been in development for over 18 months and features only one limited H-scene with the oldest, least desirable character. Devs have never addressed the length it takes to (not) deliver content. With the amount of money they have pulled in (over 40k), hundreds of scenes could have been commissioned by any competent artist.

Innocent Witches seems promising at first. The art looks fantastic, the setting was explored in AKABUR's Witch Trainer to great success and it seems like the team behind IW decided to expand on that game and give a better experience for fans.

This promise is what has earned all of the positive reviews so far.

All this game has is promise though. Well...promise and a shitload of tiresome dialogue that goes absolutely nowhere. As of the review we're two and a bit days away from the second anniversary of this game and it's currently on version 0.1b. Two entire years and the game is barely in a state worth playing. A two year old reviewer would have experience about as much content as I have and yet people are still praising what is looking more and more like a cheap attempt to make a lot of money.

The fantastic art doesn't make up for the fact that at the rate this game is being developed we won't be seeing a completed product until 2030. When that date finally arrives I hope you enjoy having the game pumped straight into your brain via cybernetic chip, but until then this is nothing more than false promise and I'd recommend looking at pretty much any other game.

Hell, go play AKABUR's Witch Trainer or the many modded versions of that game. You're getting that full Hogwarts experience without having to wait years to play the entire game.

I am a fan of slow build up games, where you have to "work" to get to the sex part. That being said, this game could have a little more naughty stuff in it. It came to a point where I don't even expect anything to happen anymore and that comes from someone who totally prefers slow build ups.

Beside that, the production quality of this game is insane. Probably one of the best in this genre. I will definitely keep track of this game.

Text Simulator 2018. Way too much reading and no action. Don't waste your time. No sex, molestation takes forever to start, boring hoops that serve no meaning...
The desing is good, the artists did a great job. maybe if they did a doujin it would be nice.

The game is still very early in development. There is minimal adult content. That said, the art is superior, among the best, warranting the 4 star rating. Plus it's Harry Potter, come on... It's only going to get better as they add more content and the story becomes fleshed out.